Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

When you look at the rules taken as a whole, instead of through the blinders
you always wear, you discover that the FAA recognizes four different types
of flying with four different standards with respect to medical qualificaton:

That which requires a first class medical

That which requires a second class medical

That which requires a third class medical

That which requires the pilot to self certify as to fitness

You don't need to be able to pass a first-class medical to fly in situations
that require only a second-class medical.

Yep, and you don't need to be able to pass a second class medical to fly in
situations that require only a third class medical.

And you don't need to be able to pass a third class medical to fly in
situations that don't require a medical, which by the way is more than
just light sport pilot.

But you need to be able to pass some
sort of medical to fly at all, either explicitly or (for the light sport
license) implicitly.

Nope, there is nothing "implicit" in the rules and they are quite clear.

In relation to the FAA, the term "medical" means specific tests, specific
results, and performance by specific people as in for a third class medical
blood pressure is tested to be less than 155 under specific conditions and
done by an AME.

To fly as a light sport pilot there is no requirement that one has ever
seen a physican of any kind at any time in their life, only the requirement
that they be safe to fly.



--
Jim Pennino

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