(and I see him semiannually) for unlimited activity after my
angioplasty/stent. I have run many high intensity running races and also run
across the country no problem.. I feel I am safe to handle an airplane under
any circumstance. But the FAA's arcane medical believes say that once you have
had a problem you have it for life... This is NOT the real life fact...
Oh an I could pass a Special Issuance any time it would just take $4000 in
testing and with the FAA's speedy service I'd only lose 3 months out of every
year in flying waiting on them...
John
On Monday 17 October 2011 01:10:35 pm Skyking wrote:
> Sport pilots beware - your non-FAA medical can bite you!
> Back in 2004 the FAA and industry got together and came up with a new way
> to help stimulate general aviation flying. Called the Sport Pilot Program,
> it cut in half the training requirements to pilot a two-seat airplane
> having a gross takeoff weight of not more than 1,320 pounds. It also
> eliminated the requirement to undergo an FAA medical examination. In place
> of the FAA medical, the FAA left many folks with the notion that as long
> as they held a valid drivers license and had not been denied an FAA
> medical certificate in the past, they could qualify as sport pilots. What
> many of us missed in the new sport pilot rule was 14CFR Part 61.303(b)(4)
> which says, "Not know or have reason to know of any medical condition that
> would make that person unable to operate a light-sport aircraft in a safe
> manner." This same regulatory language is found in 14CFR Part 61.53(a)(1)
> which addresses medical requirements to hold first, second, or third class
> medical certificate. The part that bites
> The word on the street for wannabe sport pilots is, don't take an FAA
> medical examination if you think you may not pass it. The part that bites
> is, if you know or have reason to believe that you cannot, in fact, pass
> an FAA medical, then you are NOT eligible for a Sport Pilot certificate.
> Thus, if you have diabetes, declining vision or hearing, a cardiac stent
> or pacemaker, angina, or a host of any other conditions that would deny
> you an FAA medical, even though you have never been denied an FAA medical
> and you hold a valid U.S. drivers license, you may NOT be eligible for a
> Sport Pilot certificate. The fact that you KNEW you could not pass the FAA
> medical examination places you in the category of knowing that you have a
> medical condition that would make you unable to operate a light sport
> aircraft in a safe manner. So who, but me, would ever know?
> Like so many other FAA rules and regulations, the issue may never come up
> until there is an incident or accident. Let's say, for example, that sport
> pilot suffers a fatal accident while at the controls of his airplane. The
> NTSB accident investigation reveals that the pilot recently had cardiac
> surgery or had diabetes, or any other known condition that would have
> prevented him from passing an FAA medical. Such a find would have ruled
> his Sport Pilot certificate invalid. With no valid Sport Pilot
> certificate, his insurance would likely be void. Resultant civil suits
> could render his family penniless. Are these reasonable risks to assume
> for failure to comply with the sport pilot rule?
>
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