pilots that lost medicals are you on the LSA group?

Todd Pattist wrote:

TTA Cherokee Driver wrote:


So if I lose my medical, do I not know or have reason to know of "any
medical condition that would affect" my ability to operate a light-sport
aircraft?


We don't know the exact rules, but if they are similar to
gliders, as expected, there are lots of ways you might lose
a medical and still be able to fly. All of the waiverable
medical problems would allow you to fly. Another big
difference is that a medical requires you to be medically
fit during the entire period of the medical, whereas the
glider/balloon criteria only requires you to be fit during
the flight. Progressive diseases, and periodic medical
problems with sufficient warning to permit landing may
disqualify you from a medical even though you could safely
fly either prior to the full progression of the disease or
between bouts of the problem. At least with respect to the
glider and balloon medical standard, the official position
of the FAA is that loss of a medical is not a disqualifying
condition for flight.

All good points, and reassuring to know if I ever lose my medical.
However I think Peter's original point, which is that a lot of LSA
advocates are pushing it as a panacea for "unable to get medical"
problems, which it is not. There are lots of reasons to lose your
medical that an honest interpretation would disqualify you from flying
LSA (having a retained kidney stone comes to mind).

TTA Cherokee Driver wrote:

All good points, and reassuring to know if I ever lose my medical.
However I think Peter's original point, which is that a lot of LSA
advocates are pushing it as a panacea for "unable to get medical"
problems, which it is not. There are lots of reasons to lose your
medical that an honest interpretation would disqualify you from flying
LSA (having a retained kidney stone comes to mind).

I'm no expert on kidney stones, but I agree that there are
clearly some medical conditions that should disqualify you
from flying.

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Ben Smith wrote:

A medical can be denied because a person has a criminal
record.

Does the AME make this call, or someone in OKC? And what would be a
disqualifying set of circumstances?

The AME will defer the decision to OKC. They make the call. Any felony is likely to
be disqualifying, but they do things on a case-by-case basis. Drug violations are big
hitters.

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

So if I lose my medical, do I not know or have reason to know of "any
medical condition that would affect" my ability to operate a light-sport
aircraft?

Not necessarily. The FAA has to operate for the worst case, then add a
fudge factor.

I admit that most pilots would operate for the best case, and convince
themselves that they are safe when they're not. But the FAA has
limited the possibilities for damage. The plane can't weigh more than
a J-3 Piper Cub, which was once known as "the plane that can almost
kill you."

My instructor once pointed out that he felt safer in the sky with a
klutzy student than he did driving down the road and having the same
student coming at him in the opposite lane at a closing speed of 120
mph.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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"Todd Pattist" wrote in message
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TTA Cherokee Driver wrote:

All good points, and reassuring to know if I ever lose my medical.
However I think Peter's original point, which is that a lot of LSA
advocates are pushing it as a panacea for "unable to get medical"
problems, which it is not. There are lots of reasons to lose your
medical that an honest interpretation would disqualify you from flying
LSA (having a retained kidney stone comes to mind).

I'm no expert on kidney stones, but I agree that there are
clearly some medical conditions that should disqualify you
from flying.


Agreed. I have had kidney stones (years before I began flying). When you
are have an attack crashing the plane seems like a viable option to relieve
the pain! As I understand it, women that have gone through childbirth say
that kidney stones hurt a lot worse.

jerry