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Palmtree Pilot
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For anyone to get any information on your medical records, besides the medical certificate you hold and any restrictions on it, requires you to release it to them in writing. EVEN with FOIA your medical records are protected under the Privacy Act.
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Medical info is a lot harder to get. The fact that you have an FAA medical cert is easy to verify online using the FAA airmen database...takes about 60 seconds.
But I doubt airlines will be able to get any details (exam reports, correspondence, etc) from the FAA. The privacy act cannot be waived, even by the subject of the inquiry as far as I know.
The only way for an airline to get FAA medical details would be for the pilot to use FOIA or privacy act to obtain his own records and then hand them over to the airline himself.