Originally Posted by
Split S
My FAA doc told me that any of our Navy Flight Docs could give us the Class 1, all they had to do was take an FAA certification test and I think pay a fee of some kind... but of course I haven't seen any of them jumping through any hoops to help us out with that. We just got a new flight doc in, fresh boot out of flight doc training, I'll have to see if I can convince him to do it.
Any military FS can easily get certified to issue 2nd and 3rd class FAA medicals, but the FAA severly limits the number of AME's that can do first class in a geographic area....I think you have to start with the lower classes and prove yourself. The transient nature of the FS's probably prevents them from getting the 1st class authority.