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"Danny Deger" wrote in message
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I am a private pilot without a current medical, but with a valid
drivers license. Can I fly under the sport pilot rules, or do I
need to apply for a sport pilot certificate? I have never been
denied a medical.

We've kicked this horse a lot.
You are going to get a range of responses from yes to no. The way
I
look at it, if you have a physical condition that would flunk getting
a third class medical certificate, then you should NOT be flying.
The most specious argument against my statement goes something
like:
"Well, I(you/he/she/it) may be taking a disqualifying medication, but
otherwise...."
Dang it, if you are taking a medication (let's say an
antihistamine)
that can degrade your skills, abilities, functions, congnition, etc.,
then you damn well shouldn't be taking the risk. Or for that matter,
putting the
rest of the pilots and people in the area at risk.
If that isn't the answer you wanted, I don't apologize.
I'm 68 years old and just recently passed my physical. If I
didn't
take
a wad of (FAA acceptable) pills every day, I would not have passed.
Well..., I may have passed AWAY.
Using the driver's license in lieu of a physical may be justified
by
not wanting to incur the expense, but certainly not to thwart safety.
So, why don't you just go take the physical?

I finished my last 3 years flying Captain for a major airline with a
Special Issuance First Class medical good for only 6 months for ANY
class of flying due to a heart bypass operation. Following retirement
I kept up my medical (every 6 months) which required a stress EKG,
cardiologist evaluation, blood counts, etc, plus every other test had
to include a thallium injection with a scan. This was in addition to
a normal FAA flight physical.

After a couple years of retirement (while teaching MD-80/737 flight
simulator for FSI) a radiologist thought he "saw" something on the
thallium scan and the FAA said I had to get an angiogram to renew my
medical. I thought that was an unnecessary danger and so did my
cardiologist. But his and my letters to the FAA went unheeded. So I
let it lapse since I could teach flight sims without a medical
certificate. Since then I have had a hip replacement and am currently
being treated for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma of the bone marrow. I'm
pointing out these things to show that in some cases it is very
difficult to get a medical out of the FAA.

I workout 3 days a week, feel great, and am still teaching MD-80
flight simulator. I have never had any physical problems while flying
the simulator or while working out at the gym. I would feel quite
safe to fly. I wish I could get a medical out of the FAA. The only
prescription medicine I take is Zoccor. I'm now 71 and would be very
interested in Sport Aircraft flying if I could do that with just my
driver's license.




Assuming you feel you are safe to fly (medical wise) and you have a
drivers licence you CAN FLY TOMORROW..... in an ercoupe (c or cd) some
Taylor craft, some cubs, etc, not to mention a Sonex or Zodiac (other
than HDS) or........

I assume you'll need your bi-annual though....

In spite of all the whining here, that is really the ONLY part of Sport
Pilot that really goes into effect tomorow as far as who can fly....

The rest of us who are not yet pilots, and want to be Sport Pilots, have
to wait until Jan 15th.


Wrong...

He had a medical denied so he has to jump though the hoops at least once
more and then let the special issuance expire.