True if the playing field is level. There are AME’s and there are AME’s and too many of them view their job as a mandate to be sure the letter of the FAA laws are aggressively followed to the extent that they forget their real job is to keep the public safe and help pilots who are in good enough health to continue flying.
Don’t give up looking for a good AND SENSIBLE AME until you are in a health situation where your most trusted and gifted GP tells you you are a time bomb with a short fuse while driving a car at high altitude. You are just as dangerous in that scenario as you would be in most airplanes with regard to health issues.
My two cents.
John Barrett
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If he can't get a Class III he, shouldn't be flying as a PIC. His family would be better off if one of them got a pilot's license.
In a message dated 9/14/2011 8:54:33 P.M. Central Daylight Time, hap1995@yahoo.com writes:
I have a friend who wants to get back into flying, but has a possible medical issue that might keep him from passing a Class III. Is there an AME on the list that is willing to chat with me off list about his condition and if it is worth him trying for the medical? He wants to get back into airplanes that he can travel in to far destinations with his family, so LSA isn't really his first choice.
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