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02-08-2007 | 05:10 PM

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RickyBobby

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Originally Posted by AK Hawg

Ricky - that's good info ... has anybody sent away for the list yet? Amazing that you have to actually mail a letter and request something like that in this day and age ...

I think the kicker is that the Docs have to pay to get the FAA certification. I guess if there's enough guys at one base (or others nearby) they could buy him/her enough beers make it worthwhile.

RB

02-08-2007 | 06:04 PM

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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.

02-13-2007 | 04:15 PM

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Proposed Far Change

Posted on another thread:

http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p89/450179.pdf

61.23 (b)(9)

No FAA medical required (with exceptions and stipulations).

RB

02-13-2007 | 06:00 PM

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This will be great, when/if it becomes carved in stone in the FAR's. When is the last time a civilian FAA doc did bloodwork, hearing test, color vision test, glaucoma test, retinal scans, dental X-ray and exam, etc... for an FAA physical? Never. Every civilian doc I've gone to for an FAA medical has had me in and out in 10 minutes (a quick $75 for them). They're a joke. An annual flyers physical in the Air Force is an all day friggen affair.