FAA Medical in Melbourne
I did one in Sydney a few years ago. Easy and straightforward,you fill in the details online, the doc does their thing and adds their bit into the computer, they print and sign it and you have a medical....
The Link below lists 8 FAA of AMEs in Australia:
https://designee.faa.gov/NonFaaSecur...igneeTypeId=20
The Link below lists 8 FAA of AMEs in Australia:
https://designee.faa.gov/NonFaaSecur...igneeTypeId=20
Way too easy
Setting a very bad example to regulators everywhere and causing AVMED some blips to conscience, perhaps.
I can t remember the cost. I don't think there was a fee to the FAA but the doc needed some $$$$...
Medicals and the usual AVMED dramas
You would have to wonder how many years for Parliament to wake up to the waste and mismanagement by CASA in it’s excruciating and costly methods. For myself it is particularly galling, almost every year there’s some glitch in obtaining my Class 2. Having many years ago had a medical op with no prior or post op problems affecting my fitness to fly, I’ve been required to extra expense every year. My GP gives me a clean report, my DAME has no problem. A former DAME told me that other pilots with worse histories than mine were getting two year Class 2s.
At long last CASA Director Shane Carmody is trying to ease the AVMED pain with some reforms which is welcome even with glaring flaws (i.e. not for NGT or IFR, therefore incentive to drop or not gain the higher qualifications).
This year my two months grace has run out again due to AVMED incompetence. So another waste of time and angst is in the offing.
At long last CASA Director Shane Carmody is trying to ease the AVMED pain with some reforms which is welcome even with glaring flaws (i.e. not for NGT or IFR, therefore incentive to drop or not gain the higher qualifications).
This year my two months grace has run out again due to AVMED incompetence. So another waste of time and angst is in the offing.
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This year my two months grace has run out again due to AVMED incompetence. So another waste of time and angst is in the offing.
I'll chase them up tomorrow. I'm sure it's purely an oversight on their part
Your medical consultation
When you consider the senior instructor near me who applied for a flying school AOC and had cough up $8000 up front just to lodge the application. Two years ago and still no joy, only wanted to restart a school that’s been going for at least 40 years in a regional centre.
A little off topic but everyone should be under no illusions of how dire is the state of GA. The new rules for flying schools have to be completed by August and numbers of the remaining few will fold because they are being required to employ extra staff for admin procedures mandated by the idiots in CASA.
Meanwhile Minister McCormack won’t be ‘rushed’ into agreeing with the most commonsense, simple and necessary amendment to the Act which would require CASA to consider viability in conjunction with safety. A first step towards halting the steepening decline of GA.
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Possible to do an initial FAA medical in Australia?
Are you sure you are not getting it mixed up with the need for a student pilot certificate? Previously the Doctor was able to issue a medical certificate that was combined with a student pilot certificate for an initial issue. Now you have to get a separate student pilot certificate from the FAA via a flight instructor. As far as I am aware the FAA don't make a distinction between a renewal and an initial issue as far as AME privileges and a quick search has turned nothing up.
Don't go near Dr Cann in Melbourne, heard nothing but terrible stories revolving around incompetence and wait times. At least, make sure the FAA doctor you choose is listed on the FAA website so they can print your certificate immediately.
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Are you sure you are not getting it mixed up with the need for a student pilot certificate? Previously the Doctor was able to issue a medical certificate that was combined with a student pilot certificate for an initial issue. Now you have to get a separate student pilot certificate from the FAA via a flight instructor. As far as I am aware the FAA don't make a distinction between a renewal and an initial issue as far as AME privileges and a quick search has turned nothing up.
The UK CAA have an archaic system where an initial Class 1 applicant had to make the trek to the Aeromedical Centre (AMC) in Gatwick to go from room to room to undergo a battery of tests. Great fun if you lived in Scotland.
The FAA makes no distinction between initial and renewals. You either meet the standard or you don't. In the US, there are "regular" AMEs who can only do class 2 & 3 medicals and Senior AMEs who can also do class 1. International AMEs are automatically designated as Senior AMEs so they can all do all classes.
Re: student pilot/medical certificates - up until 2016, AMEs could issue a combined student pilot/medical certificate. That is no longer the case as student pilot certs have now been taken over by Flight Standards Service, which makes more sense.
The FAA makes no distinction between initial and renewals. You either meet the standard or you don't. In the US, there are "regular" AMEs who can only do class 2 & 3 medicals and Senior AMEs who can also do class 1. International AMEs are automatically designated as Senior AMEs so they can all do all classes.
Re: student pilot/medical certificates - up until 2016, AMEs could issue a combined student pilot/medical certificate. That is no longer the case as student pilot certs have now been taken over by Flight Standards Service, which makes more sense.
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QFF - think you will find quite a few first world countries insist that the initial medical for the issue of the first licence is done by the regulating authorities own medical branch, 'archaic' or not. Designed to minimise the possibility of corruption/fiddling etc. the deliberate non disclosure of relevant medical history for example.
yes, exactly that, the issuing authority take the full responsibility for just that.
You either meet the standard or you don't.
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You have been out of the UK too long QFF.
The UK CAA stopped being the norm for issuing the initial class 1 medical a number of years ago.
IIRC under EASA it was not deemed appropriate for the Member Nations' National Aviation Authoritiy to be both the Regulator of a service and the provider of that same service.
It is now the responsibility of AMCs independent of the UK CAA to issue the initial class 1 medical.
https://www.caa.co.uk/Commercial-ind...l-certificate/
NATS initially were offering the service at their centre in Prestwick thereby saving applicants the journey to Gatwick but are no longer doing so.
Perhaps it is time for you to return to Scotland and say hello to some old faces.
I'm sure you would get a warm welcome ( even if it's "pure freezin' or baltic man oot-side" )
Medical reform submerged
From the ‘subline’ to the ridiculous. Never mind the piston engines, what about the batteries? It was the practice to build them for the life of the sub, but then perhaps different batteries, now Li-on or some new experiment?? Maybe talk to Elon for a great deal.
I hear that in the US you can instruct flying in some cases without any aviation medical. It would make perfect sense if your student was solo or had a basic licence already. But to imagine sense or commonsense has any place in administration of aviation in Beauracratalia is to fly in the face of facts.
The Stockholm syndrome plays out so well, we get a whiff of Carmody’s medical reform ideas and isn’t that great ?Instructors might be able to work with a Class 2 medical, how wonderful. Does the same person drive a car to work or the DAME’s surgery? The whole set up is so stupid, you can’t help wondering when people will wake up to the current bureaucratic palace of fantasy, a colossal edifice of waste and mismanagement.
Treat aviation like other forms of transport, straightforward rules and then let people get on and make business and services. Common law and market economics, the latter much aided by the information revolution, will sort the details. Ring, write, email your federal MP and Senators is one necessary way if we are to achieve any sanity.
I hear that in the US you can instruct flying in some cases without any aviation medical. It would make perfect sense if your student was solo or had a basic licence already. But to imagine sense or commonsense has any place in administration of aviation in Beauracratalia is to fly in the face of facts.
The Stockholm syndrome plays out so well, we get a whiff of Carmody’s medical reform ideas and isn’t that great ?Instructors might be able to work with a Class 2 medical, how wonderful. Does the same person drive a car to work or the DAME’s surgery? The whole set up is so stupid, you can’t help wondering when people will wake up to the current bureaucratic palace of fantasy, a colossal edifice of waste and mismanagement.
Treat aviation like other forms of transport, straightforward rules and then let people get on and make business and services. Common law and market economics, the latter much aided by the information revolution, will sort the details. Ring, write, email your federal MP and Senators is one necessary way if we are to achieve any sanity.
