Uphold a high standard of airworthiness in your preflight
inspections. Ultimately it's protection of your life, and the
lives of your passengers that is the definitive measure of
airworthiness.
Flight Service Station -- Air traffic facilities which
provide pilot briefing, en route communications and VFR search and
rescue services, assist lost aircraft and aircraft in emergency
situations, relay ATC clearances, originate Notices to Airmen,
broadcast aviation weather and NAS information, receive and process
IFR flight plans, and monitor NAVAIDs.
"This simple change would eliminate the double standard
that unfairly penalized pilots who for one reason or another have
unfavorable medical records on file with the FAA but otherwise meet
the sport pilot requirements."
Source: AOPA President Phil Boyer, on his
group's petition for the FAA to reconsider a "Catch-22" situation
in the current sport pilot regulations, by allowing those pilots
who have had their FAA medicals denied to be allowed to operate
light sport planes with an easily obtainable health statement from
a physician.
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