mdginzo wrote:
If you have a health condition that would normally bar you from being
cleared by an FAA doctor, but you do not mention it to the doctor, how
will he know?

He might discover it in the course of your medical examination.

I know it is a Federal offense not to disclose - or I
am guessing it is, anyway. I am just wondering how the doc would ever
know if it isn't something obvious?

It is a federal offense to falsify the application. If it isn't something
obvious, the doc may never know. The thing you'd need to worry about is
what happens if the FAA finds out. While they don't have access to your
private medical records, if any other government entity happens to have a
record of the condition, it's possible that they could share that information
with the FAA. A prime example of this was the FAA cross-checking the pilot
medical data with Social Security's disability database. That happened a
year or two ago.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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