Med Reform Doctors Form

[gbrasch]

Does anyone have details on the 4 page form our doctors are required to fill out?

[Ernie]

It's at the end of AC 68-1 in draft form. FAA.gov

[Sam Buchanan]

Does anyone have details on the 4 page form our doctors are required to fill out?

Here is the final rule.

Details of medical checklist begin on page 37.

[gbrasch]

Thanks

[FlyingRon]

The AC 68-1 has a sample in the back. Note the AC is not well proofread and has mistakes in it.

https://www.faa.gov/regulations_poli...mentID/1030196

[Cardinal729]

I'm not quite sure what looking at my anus and detailing every tattoo/scar has to do with being able to safely fly a plane but thank you SO MUCH to Jack Imhoff for getting this through congress and passed into law. Three cheers for this heroic effort!!

[Floatsflyer]

I'm not quite sure what looking at my anus and detailing every tattoo/scar has to do with being able to safely fly a plane

If your doctor is just "looking" at your anus then you have more problems than just filling out a doctors form.

However, if he puts a glove on and puts a finger up your butt for about a second then he's taking care of your health by checking your prostrate for cancer.

[lynnlpitts]

Generally, the airport bums at JLN, and I, pretty much feel that EAA and AOPA pretty much 'sucker punched' us on our support of Third class medical reform. To us, there wasn't any reform; just another bureaucratic license quagmire. Thanks also must go to the California Democrats that screwed up Jim Inhofe's original intent!

[stewartb]

If the new regs don't suit you, stick with the third class process. Your choice. For me, a guy with an SI that requires a specialist physician to do a worksheet every six months and a complete exam and condition statement once a year so I can ask the FAA's aeromed section to review my doctor's work and if they approve to give me permission to keep flying? Huge improvement. Now my doctor, who I'll see once a year anyway, can run through the FAA checklist and sign me off. Simpler, cheaper, more efficient. The FAA third class and SI never did anything to make me safer, healthier, or a better pilot. It had zero value yet it cost me money and my doctors time to jump through the hoops. And then I got to see an FAA-blessed doctor who did no doctoring but rather was a paperwork handler for the FAA. And I had to pay for that, too. Not any more!

[lynnlpitts]

I am glad it helps you. That is what was needed, but it didn't go far enough due to the airline, LSA, AMA, and ancillary organizations seeking their agenda by lobbying Congress against a simple solution. The fact had a very small percentage of one percent of accidents was caused by a medical problem speaks volumes. I remember in college Stats class that under two percent is not real important. I have several friends here in the same situation that fly Light Sport, and will continue to do so as the grace period of ten years has lapsed for them and the wording of the physician's check list is open to various interpretations, at this time. I'm glad our local senator and reps were for Jim's original intent. Maybe there is hope for my grandkids generation, but I feel my hope was waned.