New Pilots

MORE PILOTS FLYING DESPITE NEW PILOT DECREASE (revised June 2025)

Pilot Medical Solutions is helping more new pilots despite reductions in airman employment opportunities

June 23, 2025 – Following the Post-Pandemic Surge, airlines and corporate flight departments employment opportunities have decreased. However, the paradoxical influence on US citizens and the … Read More

FAA Aviation Basic Medical Rule

Pilots in Command

pilot in command
Flying left seat is where it’s at!

Pilots in command, new and old: If you are a pilot who has lost control due to a medical certification issue usually Pilot Medical Solutions can help. If you or someone you know need help to get back in the left seat this … Read More

Pilot Color Vision

While the FAA is not requiring most previously approved pilots to take the new color vision testing, in some ways, color vision issues are as much a threat than it was in the past. Color Vision issues can still be an issue for several hidden reasons.  As of January 1st, … Read More

COVID-19 Breakdown

COVID-19 — How the Corona Virus Pandemic is helping some pilots despite the virtual worldwide shutdown which has ensued.

The closure of many medical offices and the need for the FAA medical certification division to operate on a skeleton crew has grounded many pilots. Many of the pilots who have … Read More

Government Shutdown

6/24/2025

Although many see the FAA medical medical certification offices as being effectively shut down due to staffing cuts, pilots can still receive answers to their aeromedical questions from Pilot Medical Solutions.  The FAA Medical certification division is not completely shut down. It is true that FAA personnel have been Read More

FAA Aviation Basic Medical Rule

FAA General Aviation Basic Medical Rule

FAA Aviation Basic Medical Rule

Pilots with certain dysqualifying medical conditions are now able to fly under the new Basic Medical Rule. These are pilots who recently (anytime after July 15, 2006) had a valid medical certificate but have since contracted a condition which precludes FAA medical certification but is not listed as one of … Read More

FAA Medical Certification | CAD WAIT REDUCED

Pilots with some heart conditions may now be considered earlier for Special Issuance FAA medical certification.  The mandatory wait-time for some applicants with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is shorter than was previously required.

Please read carefully because, like many of the FAA’s medical policies, this is a complicated protocol and … Read More