JohnBurke:
Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
However, with the former mil folks, they can. Again, the VA guys, from what I'm told, look for anything in your med records to get you a favorable disability rating. The FAA now has access and can ask for your records of such. So as they look at the laundry list of things on it that inlcudes your paid disability rating(s) (my brother's is 8-9 pages of stuff) - what if you have on your VA form Right Hyperphoria? It's not disqualifying for the FAA, heck they don't even test for it. So by one being honest and self disclosing and providing the information ALREADY for your SI, and totally unrelated to such, they ask for it again? Maybe now they decide that you need to get that right hyperphoria checked, but wait, you pass the first class medical. But no, we see it here in the record, that you already provided and we've looked at for the last X years, that now we the FAA have suddenly decided that you are now required to resolve it to their satisfaction even though no other medical holder is tested for it. What if you had a rotator cuff rating, say it was zero (no $$). The Faa could ask for you to undergo a mobility check couldn't they? Not required by any other class medical holder. The SI received was totally unrelated, but the FAA decided that you needed to go thru this only becasue now they have all the "conditions" the VA rated (even zero) for service and non-service connected disabilities.
EDIT TO ADD TO THE ABOVE:
The VA provides a laundry list of things to include that which is service connected and disability rating to include those things that one recevied payments from the VA. My brother has 8 or 9 things on his report. Only one is what he receives disability $$ for and that is for his OSA and why he has an SI. The rest are just things the VA reviewer pulled out from his 25 years of medical records. He sent that report in to the FAA already, for his original SI issuance. The other 7 or 8 items are not paid, and of those, 3 are not service connected. Why is the FAA asking him for this again? Why?
No civilian has to go thru this. Like I said, I have an SI as well. For my initial issuance I provided all the tests and titration info for my prescirbed medication. I provide only what I need annually to renew my SI. The FAA doesn't get a laundry list of my medical records review. They only get, by law, what is required to maintain my SI and they never ask for additional information outside of that which is salient to my SI renewal. These mil folks are giving the FAA a list of things, many are not applicable to holding a class 1 medical, yet now the FAA can, if they so decide, to have something "else" looked and verified. That is not fair, it's wrong and that is why I called it a fishing expedition. No other demographinc has to submit to this level of intrusion. Now, if the FAA was looking for things relating to his SI, then that is fair. But they are not. They want the VA disability rating report, something he's already provided, to be submitted again. If he doesn't they will withhold his medical. That is not fair, right or just.