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This is exactly the advice I was given by the folks at EAA this past January. The key here is to have your PCP, and NOT a DME, do the "pre-medical". I was told that once you begin the exam with a DME, it must be completed, so to speak...regardless of the direction it is going in. You cannot stop it in the middle, as some believe, if it looks like you're going to fail. Mike Dean -----Original Message----- From: Dr. R. B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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