Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: I need help

If I were you I would go to an AME and tell him/her you want a "pre-medical". This is where the complete exam is performed w/o the paper work. It is fine with the FAA. They don't have a problem with it. If you fail all you are out is the cost of the exam. If you pass you can come back the next day for the real one and then you are good to go. As far as having to study more is concerned, you are NEVER finished learning to fly. I have friends who have alphabet soup after their name (ATP,CFI, CFII and on and on) and they are learning every day. I have been flying for 12 years and still consider myself a "greenhorn".
Jimmy
--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "bikerider1959" <paulwalter@...> wrote:
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> so you're saying hey big guys, you have to have twice as many hours , study more and get a medical before you can do what us thin guys can do with less time and our drivers license.
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> this elitist attitude is one of the things that has kept me from even attempting to learn how to fly for 50 years, comments from pilots like you might have a hard time fitting in the plane, and we might not even be able to take off,or there is no way you could ever pass the medical exam,and other comments when ever I would ask questions about it. that made me feel inferior and forever afraid of trying to get a medical certification.
> so Now I hear about the new class of flying with a drivers license Medical requirement that is intended to bring more new pilots into general aviation with less cost to the individual.
> you would think that with all the talk about the "Aviation Community" and the "Aviation Family" out there that there would be more tolerance for peoples differences and more help in trying to find ways for people to realize their dream of flying, instead we have an elitist I am better than you fat boy attitude. new pilots are fine as long as they fit into the Ken And Barbie mold.
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