Medical extension

Mine is due next month. I even set it late in the month hoping that things are better by then.

With a practice full of pilots coupled with elderly people seeking Pulmonary help, it’s got to be a Petri dish of fun.
 
My AME's real job is as an ER doc in Coeur D Alene, ID, near Spokane. I wasn't due till end of next month but got mine Thursday thinking he might be really busy end of next month.
 
Truth. I really wish they’d codify this though. Or telemedicine? I doubt if anything is tangibly different than my medical from five months ago.
 
Richman said:
Not to point out the obvious, but "not violating people for expired medicals" isn't exactly the same as an extension.

This means zero for airline ops. Most FOMs require "valid FAA medical", not "expired medical Feds are overlooking"....
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Same for insurance policies I'd imagine for general aviation, 121, 135.
 
rausda27 said:
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Hooray! I bet AOPA is soiling their briefs over this one. What could be better than to have a bunch of codgers, squarely ensconced in the highest risk group out flying around without medicals during the midst of a pandemic? Gaffers, queue the lightening. Fx, queue the earthquakes and volcanoes. Prop Master, add some guns and artillery to the scene.
 
Crop Duster said:
Hooray! I bet AOPA is soiling their briefs over this one. What could be better than to have a bunch of codgers, squarely ensconced in the highest risk group out flying around without medicals during the midst of a pandemic? Gaffers, queue the lightening. Fx, queue the earthquakes and volcanoes. Prop Master, add some guns and artillery to the scene.
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The verbiage is that the FAA won’t purse certificate action against pilots, right? The FAA didn’t exactly say they’re valid. It sounds like doing 60 in a 55. Still illegal, but we’re not going to pursue anything. @MidlifeFlyer ? Soooo....now let’s say a pilot with an May medical bends a plane June 1 and a passenger is injured. “Captain Jones, my client was injured on your flight, and you didn’t have a current medical....”

The FAA lawyers wrote this to 1) give relief to the system and 2) to cover the FAA’s b-u-t-t.
 
The wording is unfortunate. Most of the questions I've seen have been with respect to insurance coverage. I don't have a reliable answer although my guess is it won't be an issue.

And I don't have an answer for the "us vs them" Neanderthals who see everything trough their "I hate GA" lenses.
 
DE727UPS said:
Yeah. Mark Manteuffel. Great guy. I drive 3.5 hours each way now but it's well worth it.
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Haha, all the guys I fly with told me I have to see him. I went last year to do my first ECG and it had an anomaly. He laughed and said it was caused by women and to stay away from them.
 
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