Pietenpol-List: what medical ?
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 3:41 pm
Original Posted By: Michael D Cuy
Original Posted By: "Michael D Cuy"
Whenever this subject is brought up, I think of my late buddy, Jack Green,of Hebron, Texas. He had NINE bypasses. He acted and felt like a childbecause his circulation was SO good.Of course, the FAA denied him the medical BUT it was OK FOR HIM TO DRIVE ASCHOOL BUS FULL OF KIDS and across railroad tracks too!!Then there is Charlie G.. He flipped his single seat biplane one morning.He flew every morning. The wind was howling this particular morning and itgot away from him and he flipped it. Anyway, the FAA comes out (NTSB stayedaway as there was no carnage) and asked him for his papers. Needless tosay, he could not find his medical. As a mater of fact, he could not findhis medical for the previous 25 years as the Feds denied him his medical 25years previous.Being the upstanding American that he is, twenty-five years earlier he saidF*** them, and he kept on flying.Anyway, he had his pilot's certificate suspended for 90 days for not flyingwith a valid medical, and then the FAA REINSTATED HIS MEDICAL saying thatthey must of been wrong 25 years ago if he had amply demonstrated lo theselast 25 years that he could safely fly.Go figure!I personally know these guys.Chris----- Original Message -----