Medical question

Does anyone know what the blood pressure limits are for an FAA medical
certificate, second or thrid class?

Michael

Michael-

FAA medicals must be deferred if the systolic (upper number) pressure
exceeds 155, and/or the diastolic (lower number) pressure exceeds 95.

Lynne C. Miller, M.D.

Ignore this troll.


Lynn Miller is not an MD. She recently offered to sign off a student pilot
to take his written. She's nit a CFI either.

Call AOPA and ask, or call an FAA doc.


"Lynne" wrote in message
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Michael-

FAA medicals must be deferred if the systolic (upper number) pressure
exceeds 155, and/or the diastolic (lower number) pressure exceeds 95.

Lynne C. Miller, M.D.

Thank you for your informative and useful response.

Michael

Michael,

I strongly suggest you do not take Lynne's response as informed. (S)he finds
it amusing to intentionally give out false information. (S)he mis-represents
him/her self as being qualified, when (s)he is not.


"Michael" wrote in message
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Thank you for your informative and useful response.

Michael

Lynne's response matched every other response I got, posted here, by
email, and from my own search. Either they are all wrong, or she is
right. She provided a response that was informative and useful - which
is more than you did.

Michael

You want to listen to someone pretending to be a doctor, that's your choice.
I never said Ken/Lynne was wrong, only that I would not trust his/her
information.

Just for fun, you may want to do a google groups search on Lynne Miller

"Michael" wrote in message
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Lynne's response matched every other response I got, posted here, by
email, and from my own search. Either they are all wrong, or she is
right. She provided a response that was informative and useful - which
is more than you did.

Michael

Lynne or Ken or whatever internet moniker that this individual uses
are quite good at making himself/herself believable by presenting facts
mixing with factoids. Like Steve said, a quick read of past postings
will tell one whether to 'trust' this individual. In google, just
click the show options and choose find messages by this author. "Lynne"
had claimed of identify theft but all postings under her name and "Ken"
have the same style. It's pretty amazing that this troll have
continued to fool many people even rec.aviation regulars. On the other
hand, some people may find trolls amusing and don't mind participating
in some web jousting. The danger is that this may add to the troll
'credibility'. Some of the things that this troll had posted were
harmless (like the information on blood pressure) but if unsuspecting
students/pilots believe that "Lynn" was an M.D., CFI, ATP pilot (for
various arilines), DE, FAA weather briefer etc..and follow some of
his/her dubious advices like tossing away the checklist or let her
signoff their writtent test application etc., it can be dangerous.

Hai Longworth

yes, the FAA


"Michael" wrote in
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| Does anyone know what the blood pressure limits are for an
FAA medical
| certificate, second or thrid class?
|
| Michael
|

Michael wrote:

Does anyone know what the blood pressure limits are for an FAA medical
certificate, second or thrid class?

Michael

From the AOPA website:

Current Federal Aviation Regulations do not impose blood pressure limits
for any class medical certificate; however, the FAA has established a
policy by which persons with controlled blood pressure may be certified
at any class of medical.

The FAA considers blood pressure controlled when the average sitting
blood pressure does not exceed 155mm mercury systolic and 95mm mercury
diastolic with or without medication. If the blood pressure is
controlled and the required cardiovascular evaluation is provided at the
time of examination, the aviation medical examiner may issue the medical
certificate, as indicated in the revised Guide for Aviation Medical
Examiners.

The FAA currently allows most FDA-approved anti-hypertension agents,
including diuretics, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors,
alpha-adrenergic blocking agents, beta-adrenergic blocking agents,
calcium channel blocking agents, direct vasodilators, or combinations of
these agents.

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