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Subject: Re: [LML] Class 1, do you need it?
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There has been an NPRM circulated regarding elimination of Class 3 Medicals.=
  I hope all of you have read it and commented.

Jeff

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On Dec 19, 2010, at 6:09 PM, paul miller <paul@tbm700.com> wrote:

> I learned a lesson.  I've always had Class 1 medicals since I was a teen, j=
ust because.   I never thought about it.    I'm 55 now.  When I turned 50 I h=
ad EKG tracings as part of Class 1 and never had a problem.  This past May I=
 had 2 PVCs show up on the chart (premature ventricular contractions) which b=
y themselves is not necessarily a problem.  I was told by the AME that FAA a=
llows 3 per minute and the chart was submitted.  You know the result.   It i=
s now Dec-2010, 7 months later and I still can't fly.  The FAA requested an i=
ntensive 2-day nuclear trace with CT scanning, treadmill and EKG tracings an=
d eventually I had the medical pulled in July pending these test results.   B=
ack in Canada this summer I was able to get the tests done for free in Augus=
t (no political statement being made here) under our provincial health care p=
lan.  It took a month before I realized the data was not sent to the FAA by m=
y local doc so I had to go back and request copies of DVDs of imaging, photo=
copies of all EKGs and submit them to Oklahoma City myself.  Through the mon=
ths of September, October and November the data sat in transit and then at FA=
A pending "security clearance", inbox processing, evaluation and finally (af=
ter calling every day) I received another letter Dec-13 requesting an Echoca=
rdiagram for further information.  I did that this week up in Jax for $220 c=
ash.  In both clinics there was no problem identified.  The FAA continues to=
 tell me that my medical is not denied but it will not yet reissue the certi=
ficate.  Requesting a 3rd class at this point will not work either.   AOPA i=
s assisting.   My lesson is that if you don't need a class 1, then don't bot=
her.  When I told my friends they laughed when they found I had applied for a=
 Class 1.  AOPA said it was an invitation for trouble as well.  Why am I the=
 last to know this stuff? Maybe this will help someone in the future.
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