Cost of your FAA medical?
10-22-2011 | 07:07 AM
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Frank Browning at Spruce Creek in FL is 75 for 1st w no EKG. Used to be 60 last year but still pretty good price considering his competition in the same fly-in community charges a lot more. Really nice guy, hope he doesn't retire any time soon.
10-22-2011 | 07:08 AM
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A few years go in the Central California (Fresno, Visalia, Hanford) area it was $100 for the 1st class medical and $85 for the EKG if required. To any military pilots out there getting their 1st Class medical, check with your flight surgeons - AD and Reserves. There are some that are allowed to give FAA medicals.
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10-22-2011 | 07:37 AM
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Military vs FAA Physicals
The Air Force recently (about 3 years ago) changed rules that allows Flight Surgeons to issue 3rd class physicals. Not any good for an airline guy.
SOME (very few) flight surgeons are authorized to be AMEs; ie, can give 1st-Class. A handful more can do 2nds, but not 1st.
I asked one of the few who could do 1sts, before he left my base: "Why doesn't the FAA allow military physicals---which are far more stringent than any FAA physical I've ever taken---be allowed as 1st-Class?"
He said: "Secret handshake between the FAA and AMEs for job-protection. Like every raw deal in life---politics."
SOME (very few) flight surgeons are authorized to be AMEs; ie, can give 1st-Class. A handful more can do 2nds, but not 1st.
I asked one of the few who could do 1sts, before he left my base: "Why doesn't the FAA allow military physicals---which are far more stringent than any FAA physical I've ever taken---be allowed as 1st-Class?"
He said: "Secret handshake between the FAA and AMEs for job-protection. Like every raw deal in life---politics."
06-11-2012 | 12:06 PM
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06-11-2012 | 12:17 PM
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Dr. Brad Griffin in Roanoke Texas. I think he's $40 now up from $35.
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06-11-2012 | 12:21 PM
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Dr. Brad Griffin in Roanoke Texas. I think he's $40 now up from $35.
Brad Griffin, D.O. | Roanoke, TX | Family Medicine | Doctors | D Magazine
Call in advance!
Brad Griffin, D.O. | Roanoke, TX | Family Medicine | Doctors | D Magazine
Call in advance!
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