Expert Opinion
AINsight: Aviation Medicine in the Pandemic, Part 3
The pandemic has made navigating viation medical certificate issues more difficult.

The entire world continues to learn new adaptations and strategies to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic, with ongoing changes occurring literally on a day-to-day basis. Will children return to public schools at all this coming year? Many college sports seasons are now canceled entirely. Most of the remaining professional sports events are being played without spectators.

The most disappointing to me personally is being unable to go scuba diving nor make my near-annual trek to The Masters. But if I am healthy enough to lament the “small stuff,” then at the same time I need to feel grateful and fortunate. That remains something that I focus on during some of the ongoing frustrations and disappointments.

Robert Sancetta, M.D.
AIN Contributor
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Dr. Robert Sancetta is a former DC-10 captain with 11,000 flight hours. He has worked as a Senior AME since 1993 and is appointed as AME Consultant to the FAA Federal Air Surgeon.

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