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EXCELLENT advice! If
you're worried about passing a Class III Medical, take a
'pre-medical.' Take it with a non-FAA doctor, your PCP [Primary Care
Physician, i.e, your family doctor]. If your PCP isn't a flight
surgeon, he or she won't know the parameters for a Class III Medical.
Bring them with you. Have him or her examine you according to those
parameters. If you can pass, find a flight surgeon IMMEDIATELY and
get your Class III done right away!
The FAA medical
requirements try to shoehorn we over-40 men and women into a young, 20-ish,
gonna-live-forever paradigm. Maybe FAA must do this to satisfy
bureaucratic requirements. So 'render unto Caesar that which is
Caesar's'.
If your PCP
says you'd fail the medical, DON'T TAKE ONE.
Go for a Sport Pilot rating on your driver's
license. The crucial point is never to "fail" a Class III flight
physical. The bottom line: KEEP FLYING! The FAA has
succumbed to the same youth-culture-idiom as the rest of America -- if
you're not young you're not human. This isn't FAA's fault; they're subject
to pressures we'll never see. But stay human; stay in the air.
However you must.
Dr. R.
Beeman
----- Original Message -----From: Albert BarberTo: James B. BrennanCc: ercoupersSent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:25 PMSubject: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Class 3 med exam.----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]----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============================================================================== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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