Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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The FAA is working through another extension on medical requirements, FAA Deputy Administrator Dan Elwell said, but cautioned that the agency also is now turning its attention to “unraveling” the myriad such special considerations as flying begins to pick up and restrictions lift.

 


Speaking during an online General Aviation Town Hall on Thursday that featured a cross-section of the industry, Elwell said he believes the agency is hoping to get the next extension through “very soon” for another temporary extension, saying it was “going through the proper channels” to ensure the those with expiring medicals can continue to operate. The original medical extension provided until the end of June for the renewal of medicals that were to expire up until May 31.&nbsp;

 


Leniency on medical deadlines <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2020-04-30/faa-sfar-provides-reprieve-range-requirements">was among about 80 different "regulatory enhancements"</a>&nbsp;that the FAA has made in recent months to help keep the National Airspace System operating to the extent possible, Elwell estimated. But going forward, the onus will be on both the regulator and the industry to restore the system and regulatory regime, he said.

 


“It’s going to be on us the regulator to unfold…these various regulatory mitigations that we put in place in a thoughtful way. We don’t want to lift the extension on medicals so that everybody goes un-current the same day,” Elwell said. “We are going to unravel it in a way that makes sense.” This has to be done in a manner that both the pilots and regulators can handle, he added.

 


In addition, he said, “Operators, maintainers, and manufacturers also have to be very careful and thoughtful in how they get themselves ready and reengage in normal operations.”

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