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ALPA Moves To Block Medical Reform Bill

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Key Takeaways:

  • Third-class medical reform for private pilots, which aims to replace the current medical certification with self-health assessments, is facing an 11th-hour challenge.
  • The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) is actively campaigning against the reform, expressing "grave concerns" about "medically unfit pilots" in shared airspace.
  • Leading general aviation groups like AOPA and EAA are strongly opposing ALPA's stance, calling it baseless and urging their members to contact Congress to support the reform before a July 31 deadline.
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Just when it appeared third-class medical reform might finally be within legislative reach, airline pilots have held up their hands to say not so fast.

The Air Line Pilots Association is staging an 11th-hour p.r. campaign aimed at derailing the key provisions of the Pilots’ Bill of Rights 2, legislation aimed at eliminating third-class medicals for most private pilots in favor of self-health assessments.

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