Old 09-30-2018 | 09:10 AM
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jupiter87140
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
You know, subtlety is wasted on some people, and you seem to be one of those people. So here it is, NOT sugar coated:

1. You HAVE been diagnosed as having a neurological disorder. Your personal physician could not have offered you a prescription medication that would have required FAA approval without having made such a diagnosis. And he/she undoubtedly entered the ICD-10 coding for that diagnosis into the electronic medical record and it is now there forever. EMR systems have multiple backups and can't afford to lose data, so even if you didn't use medical insurance (who woukd have also received that ICD-10 code) there is an indelible record that you HAVE been diagnosed.

2. It is not for your physician to make the decision if your tremor is aero medically significant, not medically, not legally, and not ethically.

3. It is not for YOU to make the decision. Not legally, not medically, not ethically.

4. You have admitted that this has already interfered with your flying, and you have barely gotten started. You haven't gotten to the point where you are a mile outside the outer marker and approach tells you the guy in front of you just went missed approach and the field has gone well below minimums and they are now changing the published missed approach and in the event you cannot land - which has become a near certainty - you now need to go to some distant intersection at some nonstandard altitude and hold on some arbitrary heading until they sort out what to do with the guy in front of you and the three guys on back of you. And you have to copy that down single Pilot IFR while continuing to at least fly the localizer and maintain altitude because you can't actually go missed approach before the missed approach point either. You are, in fact, simply INCOMPETENT to have a meaningful opinion of your ability to do that.

5. At this point even your AME might not be able to clear you for anything more than a student license because this HAS interfered with your flying career meaning that he/she ought to defer this decision to Oklahoma City. See AME guide directions below:

Tremors, if sufficient to interfere with the performance of airman duties 12 All Submit a current status report to include functional status (degree of impairment as measured by strength, range of motion, pain), medications with side effects and all pertinent medical reports

Requires FAA Decision
For all the above conditions: If the applicant is otherwise qualified, the FAA may issue a limited certificate. This certificate will permit the applicant to proceed with flight training until ready for a MFT. At that time, at the applicant's request, the FAA (usually the AMCD) will authorize the student pilot to take a MFT in conjunction with the regular flight test.
The MFT and regular private pilot flight test are conducted by an FAA inspector. This affords the student an opportunity to demonstrate the ability to control the aircraft despite the handicap. The FAA inspector prepares a written report and indicates whether there is a safety problem. If the airman successfully completes the MFT, a medical certificate and SODA will be sent to the airman from AMCD.
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So yes, you can try and hide this and berate the world for still using carbon smeared on wood pulp as a memory aid, but don't doubt for a moment that what you are doing is illegal. And documentation of that is just sitting there, out of your reach but definitely not out of reach of the FAA.
You may not get caught, you may be able to make your right hand work well enough to get by, but yes, you are concealing a material fact and what you are doing is illegal. More to the point, it's stupid. It's in your interest as well as the FAAs to do this the right way.

The sad fact is that the FAA almost certainly would waiver this and you might even be better off on medication and a waiver.

I can't speak for your AME, but if I were him/her I'd get a psych eval on you as well.
Your points are excellent, and I appreciate the IFR
scenario. Wouldn’t it be dangerous, as a single pilot
, to hand write an unexpected ATC clearance while on the ILS, regardless of writing ability? If you had an iPad, couldn’t you type in the instructions? My typing speed is about 80 words a minute, and is much, much faster than hand writing.
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