Would your A M E work long distance ?? Virg On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:15:50 -0500 Steve Eberhart <[email protected]> writes: > This is something I can speak to with some experience :-) My next > AME > medical exam, after my first kidney stone was blown up with > lithotripsy > (sp?), was a non issue. Just needed a letter from my Urologist that > I > was stone free. Medical issued during the exam. The next stone > episode > again required lithotripsy to blow it up. I contacted my AME before > the > exam and he contacted my Urologist and got copies of a current CT > scan, > etc and the letter stating that I was once again stone free. He > contacted Oklahoma City and got authority to issue me a two year > medical > if everything else was OK. It was OK so he issued the medical but > with > a one year restriction. I had to prove after one year that I was > still > OK. That was fine with me. About three weeks after the medical was > > issued I received a letter from the FAA with a new, un restricted > two > year medical certificate. Said that after reviewing all of the > supporting documentation from my AME and Urologist they were issuing > the > unrestricted one and just send them the restricted one in the > enclosed > envelope. > > I think several things are important here. My AME is a SENIOR AME. > > They have a lot more authority to make decisions on their own. My > AME > is also in my local EAA chapter and goes the extra mile to work with > > problem cases. > > Just a story where I was very impressed with my AME and the FAA. > How > often do you hear that! > > Steve Eberhart > Yeh, I have played around with things KR but now my hands are > covered > with metal cuts. > > > Larry&Sallie Flesner wrote: > > >At 08:46 PM 4/26/2006, you wrote: > > > > > >>Having had a kidney stone I can testify that they are largely > transitory and > >>generally would only debitateyou during the event. Believe me > >>during the event > >>you think you are going to die. They generally do not cause the > >>kind of chronic > >>problem that would knock you out of the sky. > >>Don > >> > >> > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > >Don't take them too lightly, depending on your history of passing > them. > >If you experience stones on a regular basis (God help you) or have > one > >lodged that could pass at any time, you will be corresponding with > the > >fed's on a regular basis. > > > >Larry Flesner > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > >
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