So you're OK to be in the other lane passing within six feet of me at a
closing rate of 120 miles an hour and repeating the event a hundred or so
times an hour but not to be off buzzing around over a field several thousand
feet away in a much lighter and more crushable machine.

Yup, makes about as much sense as anything else the government does.

--

Roger Long



"cj" wrote in message
.. .

"Richard Isakson" wrote in message
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(ii) Have been found eligible for the issuance of at least a third-class
airman medical certificate at the time of his or her most recent
application
(if the person has applied for a medical certificate);

Rich

This is the part that affects me. I applied for a third-class about four
years ago while taking lessons. However, the FAA asked for information
from
my cardiologist about my blood pressure medicine. He ignored their
specific
points and wrote a rambling memo that I was fit to fly. Because I had
stopped taking lessons (we bought a house and the money got spent on silly
stuff like mortgage), I never submitted his memo. The FAA never denied me
and until a year or so ago the FAA web site showed I had submitted an
application with not additional action.

However, because I once submitted an application -the rule says "...most
recent application" - I have to get a third-class medical. Then, I can
let
it lapse and start using a driver's license to fly as a sport pilot. But,
if I had bought the house a few months earlier, never applied for a
third-class medical, I could declare myself fit to fly as a sport pilot as
long as I have a driver's license.

I think someone else called this "government goo".

-cj