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AINsight: FAA Medical Document Submission Improvements

Aviation Medical Examiners now have the ability to upload a pilot’s required medical documentation to the FAA website, saving review time for medicals.

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By Robert Sancetta, M.D. • AIN Contributor

June 9, 2023

Finally! Aviation Medical Examiners (AMEs) now have the ability to upload a pilot’s required medical documentation directly to the FAA website.

This is a vast improvement over the traditional “paper chase” of document submission that has previously been required. As I have discussed in prior blogs, the typical document submission protocol involved mailing data (most AMEs and aviation medical consultants, however, use priority delivery services with tracking) to the FAA, hoping that the data does not get lost in the transfer to the mail room, waiting for that data to go to the scanning room, then waiting several more weeks for that data to actually get scanned into the system.

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Robert Sancetta, M.D.

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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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