Medical

Agency has dropped plans to deny incomplete applications and will work with aviation groups to streamline the certification process.

Hypoxia can be a threat even at so-called non-oxygen altitudes. Mitigations include diligent preflights and monitoring.

Agency delays medical deferral changes after pilot and industry pushback, postponing implementation to March 1.

The agency has revised its guidance to aviation medical examiners on ‘uncomplicated anxiety, depression and related conditions.’

Here are the details on the use of BasicMed and its criteria, according to the FAA.

A short flight generates sobering thoughts on insurance, eyesight, and avgas.

With some very rare exceptions, the FAA should never take more than six months to a year to review your medical certificate application. That might seem like a long time to some pilots. For others stuck in the quagmire of successive information requests from the FAA, it might seem laughably naïve. To be clear, that […]

From Our Partners at Wingman Med Once upon a time, the world used paper. Applying for a FAA medical certificate, meant filling out FAA form 8500-8 and presenting it to your AME at your flight physical. While the use of that paper form has fallen by the wayside,14 CFR part 68.7 still mandates its use. […]

When it comes to mental health conditions like depression and anxiety, we frequently hear “the FAA won’t let me get help” or “if I try to get help, I’ll lose my medical.” Many times we see someone ask in an online discussion about how it will be handled by the FAA and the overwhelming response […]

A pilot regains his FAA medical following a harrowing experience with a brain tumor.