Mon, Jul 19, 2004
Sources tell ANN that
the Driver's License Medical option may only available if your
medical has not already been denied
As previously reported; ANN has learned that the Sport Pilot
rule is to be announced tomorrow morning at 10:30am at FAA
headquarters. ANN will be represented in person at the press
conference by former USUA president John Ballantyne.
ANN has also learned (from multiple credible sources in and
outside of the Beltway) that a principal measure of the rule, the
much vaunted and overhyped driver's license medical provision, may
have a catch. While the driver's license medical can apparently be
used in lieu of an FAA medical, it may be only
applicable to those who have not had their FAA medical
certificate denied, suspended or revoked. With the current wording,
we're not sure if this also applies to those with a special
issuance medical, since the need for such is predicated upon an
initial denial.
Heavily promoted in some circles as the "old man's pilot's
license," these rumored exceptions may well obliterate much of
the good news from the rule for a great many people who were
looking to Sport Pilot as a way of mitigating the very high
expenses and frustratingly long process of obtaining and
maintaining a regular or special-issuance medical certificate.
Such an exception might also have a devastating
effect on an entire aviation industry that has closed
ranks behind the Sport Pilot rule in the hopes of partaking of
what could very well be the general aviation renaissance of the new
millennium. We'll have lots more information shortly after 1030
EST... stay tuned.
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