surfflyride
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Just a quick word of advice here on your ACL's and other ailments. If somebody tells you that you don't qualify, that doesn't mean you are done. You'll have to request a waiver. I've got waivers on both my ACL reconstructions. Sometimes those waivers take a long time to clear too, but they do, and you get to fly. You'll need copies of all sorts of stuff, to include doctors' letter of recs/post-op evaluations, maybe your x-ray MRI results, etc. After all of this written proof, the only real physical test I was asked to pass was a duck walk (like a squatting walk for a few paces) and hop on each individual leg about 20 times. As for the shoulder thing, less surgery is probably better, but not at the expense of being a chronically med-down student in flight school. That makes it harder for you and the current Commodore in Corpus Christi isn't too keen on young bucs being med-down more than he is. As far as what to tell the docs, I'd recommend answering questions honestly, because it can get real ugly if they find a scar you didn't mention.
So seriously, how did you do all that? Mine were all soccer related.
So seriously, how did you do all that? Mine were all soccer related.