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AINsight: Navigating Aeromed Documentation, Part 1

Pilots should tread carefully when asked to provide the FAA with documentation to facilitate review of medical conditions of potential aeromedical concern.

By Robert Sancetta, M.D. • AIN Contributor

February 13, 2020

Pilots are often required to provide documentation to the FAA to facilitate a review of medical conditions of potential aeromedical concern. These can be for relatively minor medical treatments (but are still on the FAA radar) or for complicated, formal, and extensive “special issuance” evaluations.

The manner in which the documentation is presented to the FAA can vary, and often remains a confusing jungle of protocols—some of which can be rather nebulous—that the pilot and AME must navigate through before submitting records to the FAA.

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Robert Sancetta, M.D.

AIN Contributor

About the author

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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