Re: Bad AME
- From: "NW_PILOT" <NW_PILOT@"(nospammeok)"Warflying.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:16:19 -0800
Why don't you contact FAA & request a copy of your medical from the FAA?
Have your Instructor copy everything over!
"Wiz" <dceclectic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> OK - so I was all ready to take my PP-ASEL checkride (in part, thanks
> to all
> the great posts here), and went to register for IACRA. Couldn't do it.
> Called the web folks at FAA. Turns out the number on the
> medical/student pilot certificate in my physical posession (the one
> with my endorsements on it) has a different number than the the medical
> form that the FAA has on file.
>
> What happened? After canceling my checkride last Tuesday and talking
> to the AME's office several times, including talking with the
> unsympathetic-sounding doctor, I have yet to get a straight answer, let
> alone a solution. Here's my educated guess: When I did my exam in
> February of this year, I had to get some follow-up from my primary
> medical doctor due to a medication I was taking. After submitting that
> to the AME's office in person, I still never received my certificate.
> I called several times over three weeks and didn't get any explanation.
> The office assistant repeatedly told me she would call me back when my
> certificate was "ready," but she never did. Eventually, I sort of
> insisted that I get my certificate, and she told me to come in and pick
> it up. I speculate that she lost it, and to appease me, she just
> filled out my part of another one, tore it off, and gave it to me, not
> caring that it didn't match the medical exam form she sent to the FAA.
>
> When I spoke to the doctor upon first discovering this, he treated it
> like an annoyance (hey, he cashed the check already, right?) and didn't
> seem to care that I had to cancel my checkride. By contrast, the FAA
> was very helpful - gave me a fax number so the doctor could fax a note
> straightening it out (which he hasn't done -- last week the doc said
> they would call me the next Monday, I called on Monday when they didn't
> and the new office assistant said she would check into it and to call
> Tuesday, called today (today) and she isn't in...)
>
> I rescheduled my checkride from December 2 to December 20, my next
> available date. May not have the opportunity to fly in the meantime,
> so that's 18 days of rust building up...
>
> Contact me off list if you are looking for an AME in the Washington, DC
> area, and want to know who to avoid. Sorry to sound so critical, but
> under the circumstances, I think I'm justified.
>
> Wiz
>
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