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Sport Pilot cuts off special issuance at the knees
From the Sport Pilot final rule:
"The FAA has reconsidered the circumstances in which a current and valid U.S. driver's license should be allowed in lieu of a valid airman medical certificate and has made substantive revisions to the medical provisions in the final rule. These revisions are based on the FAA's concern that pilots whose airman medical certificates have been denied, suspended, or revoked or whose Authorization for Special Issuance of a Medical Certificate (Authorization) has been withdrawn would be allowed to operate light-sport aircraft other than gliders and balloons under the proposed rule. Therefore, possession of a current and valid U.S. driver's license alone is not enough to dispel this concern. For this reason, this final rule permits using a current and valid U.S. driver's license as evidence of medical qualification based on certain conditions. If a person has applied for an airman medical certificate, that person must have been found eligible for the issuance of at least a third-class airman medical certificate. If a person has held an airman medical certificate, that person's most recently issued airman medical certificate must not have been revoked or suspended. If a person has been granted an Authorization, that Authorization must not have been withdrawn." "The medical provisions proposed in SFAR No. 89 sections 15, 35, and 111 are transferred to §§61.3 and 61.23. Under §61.23 (c)(2)(i), a requirement is added that each restriction and limitation, including those imposed by judicial and administrative order on a current and valid U.S. driver's license, apply at all times when a U.S. driver's license is used to meet the requirements of this section." "In addition, language is added to paragraph (c)(2) to provide that persons may not use a current and valid U.S. driver's license as evidence of medical qualification if his or her most recent application for an airman medical certificate has been denied based on being found not eligible for the issuance of at least a third-class airman medical certificate, his or her most recently issued airman medical certificate has been suspended or revoked, or his or her most recent Authorization has been withdrawn. Further, that person must not know or have reason to know of any medical condition that would make him or her unable to operate a light-sport aircraft in a safe manner." In other words, if you have a special issuance medical for _any_ reason, sorry, you _must_ continue to pay through the nose and jump through Silberman's Hoops and Obstacle Course, rather than dealing with your family doctor as was originally planned (in exchange for limiting the type of aircraft and flying that you can do), because if you don't, your special issuance medical expires and will be either suspended, revoked or withdrawn, and you can't fly with a DL. What this boils down to is that the wording of the rule allows the FAA to take administrative action against you if you fly LSA's, you were issued a special issuance, and you do not continue to follow the steps to continue to qualify WITH THE FAA for that special issuance medical certificate. Here we go again. In my opinion, we might as well call the thing "Recreational Pilot Certificate, Part II." sigh Juan |
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