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[bailey8756]

Once you check into Pensacola and get your 1st actual upchit from NAMI, you’ll only need annual flight physicals based on your birth month. Not 12 months from the initial appointment.

For example, within a week of checking into Pensacola, I had to walk out of NAMI with my 1st upchit then directly into Flight medicine to start my annual upchit process as my birthday was 2 months later. My initial flight physical had been completed within 3 months.

Point being, it’s a convo to have with flight doc when you get to Newport to see if you can avoid some headaches.

Okay that makes sense. Thanks.

 

[Gatordev]

If you graduate on time, you have 3 days to PCS to Pensacola (assuming you go straight there). You won’t be able to see NAMI before 28Feb in Pcola for your first upchit with that quick of a turn around.

I don't think it will really matter if you have an upchit when reporting to NASC, since you aren't receiving any benefits and you're not in a flight status. You're basically in a Duties Not Involving Flying status, even though your orders say DIFOPS (or maybe they don't yet...I can't remember).

I agree, it's a conversation to have at OCS on how they want to do it. Doing a short form makes the most sense. Your flight physical doesn't have to be during your birth month, that's just the standard everyone follows.

When I went med down in flight school, my flight physical lapsed for ~14 months. I was on med TAD so there was no way for me to do my annual. When time came to get me back up post waiver, they did a long form.

That makes sense since you were both broken and a student. They do the same thing in the fleet if someone has been hard down for a long time.

When I was on my 20 month waiver pain train we eventually put me on LIMDU as a way to hold me and prevent PERS from getting their hands on me. Now that you bring this up, I can't remember if I did a flight physical while I was waiting...I can't imagine there would have been a way for me to pass it, so I probably didn't do one.