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So many of you requested a run down on my experience in getting my class 3,
without your individual email address, I'm going to have to post this on the
Ercoupers site to reach you all. I can't take any credit for this strategy. Last
fall, a local DME addressed a meeting of local AOPA members in Glens Falls,
NY and this is the way he said to do it: 1) Go on AOPA website...Click on
Medical...Click on Medications. Print out the list of approved and not approved
medications. If something you're on is not a approved: Take or send the whole
list to your doctor(s) ask them if they can substitute an approved medication,
(if only temporarily), for the forbidden one you're now on for your condition.
There's a wide variety of meds for every condition on this list, so it's do-able
2) Make a list of what meds you end up with after 1) .3) Go to TURBOMEDICAL
Review on the AOPA web site and fill out and print the 2 page form. 4) Go to
FAA.gov web site. Forms Appendix B and print out medical certificate application
form...fill it out BUT DO NOT SIGN IT. 5) In FAA .gov forms go to medical
condition evaluation forms. Put in your medical condition(s) name and you'll get
a blank doctor's evaluation form for that condition. 6) Have your doctor fill
out the forms appropriate to him.
(In my case there were 3 forms, Asmtha, Arthritis, Hypertension for my
regular doctor and a 3 page form for my Opthomologist because of
Glaucoma.). . Next and last. call a DME for an appointment for a preliminary
evaulation for a class 3 certicicate. (Try and get the "skinny" from
your local EAA chapter members on which DME willl work with you ). When you
get there; remember you only want a preliminary evaluation of your chances to be
sucessful. You hand him the full set of forms you've accumlated. If he says he
thinks you'll make it, go ahead with the exam. If, after reading thru your
forms, he says he doesn't think so....Thank him , (and pay him for his
time)...take back all your forms...Remember you signed nothing..You've never
been denied...Go fly with your driver's license. Many Happy
Landings.......Al
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