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FAA 1st Class Medical.. Any shocks compared to Navy Med?

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MasterBates

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Going in Wednesday for a 1st Class from a Civ doc here in Wyoming.

I've previously gotten the rubberstamp medical from a AME qualified FS in the past, but not sure if there are any gotchas.

Anything that has caught you by surprise?
 
BACONATOR

BACONATOR

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Not even close. 15 minutes in and out. just make sure and do the questionnaire online at the FAA site. That's what the docs use now.
 
BACONATOR

BACONATOR

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Oh, and I just passed my multi-comm add-on checkride. Not that this is the place for it, but I just got home and I'm still smiling, soooo.... here it is. :) Now onto T-6 land and CFI/I!!
 
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MasterBates

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What I found odd.. Distance vision test was with C's that had openings up, down, left right. Odd to do.
Near vision used letters. In a font where F and P were fucking damned hard to tell apart. Machine appears to have been made in 1910. I think Orville and Wilbur did their medicals on this thing.

Doctor says I have "bad" astigmatism, but NOMI never has.
 
zipmartin

zipmartin

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DEFPOTEC CETOPFED

^Distance vision 20/20 line @ 15' read forwards and backwards in the office of the doc I go to for my 1st class physical. It's posted on the wall so you can memorize it while you're filling out the paperwork. ;)

Now the close and intermediate vision tests......that's a different story. I actually have to read those.....with my trifocals of course. :cool:
 
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MasterBates

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Didn't do an EKG. I'm not sure how that works, I know they have made some changes to how long medicals and such are good for. From what I'm seeing looking it up, no EKG until 35. Beat that by a year.
 
FrankTheTank

FrankTheTank

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EKG = Baseline at 35 and then once a year after turning 40.. FYI

I only know this because I just started the 40+ cycle
 
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