That is what the list has been telling you BUT get it in writing so you can show any FAA personnel and your flight examiner and CFI. You might not understand that despite all the statements by the FAA that all the FSDOs are the same; They AREN’T.
Each individual in the FAA has their personal opinion, their personal interpretation and that is law until one can either find a better opinion from another FSDO or have the courts decide for you.
From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jim Shanahan
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:27 PM
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group 3rd Class medical
...it's stupid period. I certainly understand a medical standard for flying and even some higher ones specific to flying vs driving, but whatever medical problem you may have had, once it's over and the Doc says good to go, that should be the end of it. I have had more tests in the last 5yrs than in the previous 52yrs and all is well. Except, I might drop dead tomorrow the same as everyone else reading this....so I guess nobody should fly. Luckily the current opinion is I can get the SP with no further medical needed, per 1 person at the FAA.
From: UltraJohn <japrice@mindspring.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group 3rd Class medical
As an example of what Helen said... My case is my cardiologist has released me
(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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