FAA Fit? Wingman Med Backstops

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Key Takeaways:

  • Many pilots experience significant delays (six months or more) in receiving FAA medical certification due to submitting incorrect or insufficient paperwork to their AME.
  • Wingman Med is a new third-party aeromedical service that helps pilots navigate the complicated FAA medical certification process.
  • The service aims to ensure pilots have the proper documentation to support approved medical conditions, potentially allowing for immediate certificate issuance instead of lengthy waits.
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More and more pilots show up on the AME’s doorstep armed with the wrong or not enough paperwork to pass an FAA medical exam. That could be mean waiting a half year or more for the FAA to issue a medical when you could have been issued a certificate on the spot if you only had the right paperwork in place to support an otherwise approved medical condition.

Wingman Med is a new third-party aeromedical service with a unique military Top Gun experience for helping pilots navigate the complicated path to certification. In this field report, Aviation Consumer magazine Editor-in-Chief Larry Anglisano sat down with Wingman Med’s Dr. Keith Roxo for a primer on the service and some good advice for surviving the next visit to an AME.

Larry Anglisano

Larry Anglisano is the former Editor in Chief of sister publication Aviation Consumer magazine. He's an active land, sea and glider pilot, and has over 30 years experience as an avionics tech.
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