After three long years marked by a series of unexplained delays, AOPA President Mark Baker sent a blistering letter to the head of the Department of Transportation this week to tell him pilots are fed up with the government’s foot dragging over 3rd class medical reform.
Writing to DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx that it is “incomprehensible to many in the aviation community that no action has yet been taken,” Baker said he is exasperated that efforts to permit medical self-evaluations in place of medical exams for some pilots have been “bogged down” at the Transportation Department for the last seven months as part of a mandatory review process that is supposed to take no more than 90 days.
