Originally Posted by
Hotel Kilo
Outside of an SI what civilian has ever had to provide the FAA their complete medical history?
I've been in the major airline business for about 30 years. Never heard of it. Do you have documentation and case history to support? When I got my SI, I did not. And the FAA has never asked for it. Only the conditions salient to my issuance.
Don't deflect, just asking a simple question. And you can't deny that military is being treated differently than civilians. There is ample proof of that here on these forums.
The government will always take advantage of "low hanging fruit" regarding issues such as these. The VA is such fruit. One thing about being in the military is to a certain extent you forfeit some privacies that civilians enjoy. I have recently amended (come clean) on some omissions of past medical certificate applications. On my initial phone call with my lawyer, he basically said that as long as these conditions were not in my official VA records, then the chances of being caught were low, as long as I did not have some kind of an incident or accident that would result in being investigated. I will say that he did mention that it is more difficult for civilians to be discovered, due to there not being large databases that different government entities share. For the most part, pilots are terrified of the FAA (especially the FAA medical certificate process). Once that changes then you will see more transparency on behalf of pilots.