Dump The Flight Medical?

Although we Sport Pilots only have to self-certify (and have a driver's license) to legally fly Light Sport Aircraft,

the success of the self-certification "medical" has no doubt factored into AOPA and EAA's joint proposal to FAA to expand the concept to include Private Pilots.

To add your comments to the FAA page about such a medical exemption, go here...the end of the comment period is near, so if you have a take on this topic, let it fly.

James LawrenceWriter

"If it flies, it's cool" pretty much nails the ethos of James Lawrence. Milestones along the taxiway include boyhood obsessions with airplane models and science fiction; first flight lesson at 15 (Piper Cub); cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy, (class of '67); sailplane lessons in the California desert when he could afford it; built and flew his first hang glider (1973); magazine and book author and actor (TJ on tv's SWAT); former Editor (Ultralight Aircraft, Outdoor Photographer, Plane & Pilot); freelance writer/photographer since 1992; current LSA Editor-at-Large. Rents a local Piper Cub in Great Barrington; still loves the sky, from ground and air.