Air Force medical requirement question
12-24-2008, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by mmaviator
how much does the af care about surgeries that happened a long time ago?
A blown knee or ACL is not good, plenty of folks get NPQ for that. It's just too hard to make a 100% recovery, and it's too likely to have problems or get blown again in the future.
Remember, they are not just looking at whether you can complete flight training and fly...you have to complete survival training and be reasonably able to survive an ejection and the escape and evade on the ground.
Also they want to make sure that you can still do all that when you're a 50 year-old bird colonel Wing Commander.
12-24-2008, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by RmTrice
Rickair777,
Regarding bad allergies and being stationed somewhere, i live in Florida and work outside on the ramp at NW. I think thats about as harsh an allergy envrionment as i can be in haha. I never really got allergies year-round until I moved to this God-forsaken state im in now lol.
I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I'm going to speak to a recruiter on Wednesday to see what he has to say. I'm sure he'll do everything he can to tell me im garunteed in and that with a PPL and multi engine rating in hand I can jump right in as captain of a 707, but that's probably not what really goes down lol.
Regarding bad allergies and being stationed somewhere, i live in Florida and work outside on the ramp at NW. I think thats about as harsh an allergy envrionment as i can be in haha. I never really got allergies year-round until I moved to this God-forsaken state im in now lol.
I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I'm going to speak to a recruiter on Wednesday to see what he has to say. I'm sure he'll do everything he can to tell me im garunteed in and that with a PPL and multi engine rating in hand I can jump right in as captain of a 707, but that's probably not what really goes down lol.
12-24-2008, 09:55 PM
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Yea, thanks for that, Slice, I probably would have fallen for that. I wasnt able to speak with a recruiter yesterday, but the place is right by where i fly out of so i'll probably meet up with one soon. I think my color vision is probably gonna mess me up more than my allergies.
12-25-2008, 08:39 AM
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Ah unfourtunitly I have been diagnosed with allergies. I had a scratch test done on me a few years ago and I was allergic to damn near everything they tested me with lol. Doesnt look good for me becoming an AF pilot, thats for sure. Maybe I'll have to look into another career with them.
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