All pilots must obtain an FAA medical certificate to legally operate an aircraft, ensuring safety by medically clearing individuals to fly. There are three classes of medical certificates (First, ...

A new notice of proposed rulemaking aims to remove special issuance hurdles for aviators managing their condition with ...

The FAA's medical certification process (CAMI) is widely perceived by pilots as adversarial, cold, and lacking empathy, leading to a significant loss of trust and often causing undue hardship and ...

In this article, I will explain Ministerial Judgment from a pilot's perspective! I actually know people who have gone through ...

A coalition of pilot advocates and unions asked the federal air surgeon to put on hold a policy change set to take effect in January that would lead to a significant increase in medical certificate ...

All students planning to begin flight training at Saint Louis University must hold a current Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) medical certificate. Proof of your holding a current first or ...

The FAA expanded its Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) Assisted Special Issuance (AASI) program to include First- and Second-Class medical certificates, effective September 7, 2004. This expansion ...

A boon to pilots needing ``special issuance'' medical certificates. The FAA has taken concrete measures to relieve the backlog of medical certificate applications that at times has exceeded 50,000.

According to the AOPA, more than 25,000 pilots are now flying under BasicMed rather than with an FAA aviation medical certificate. Effective May 1, 2017, BasicMed allows pilots in good health who have ...