3/31/2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Over 6000 pilots have completed an FAA Basic Medical Rule safety course but important questions remain unanswered. Medical questions about qualification and disqualification have flooded the free consultation hotline at Pilot Medical Solutions, which is located near the FAA in Oklahoma. Pilots, attorneys, Aviation Medical Examiners and even FAA employees are reaching out to the medical service group to answer technical questions which determine eligibility to fly 6-place aircraft weighing up to 6000 pounds.
While a private physician’s sign-off and a 30 minute quiz may deem some anxious airmen fit to fly, many “new rule” technical questions, traditionally addressed by the FAA’s Aeromedical Certification Division, are now being fielded by the pilot advocate group. Private physicians are struggling the most with these questions since it is ultimately up to them to interpret the FAA’s published disqualification verbiage and establish eligibility under the new law. Issues such as: “what is considered as a “satisfactory” explanation for a stroke?”, “what constitutes an established diagnosis of cardiovascular disease?” and “do I qualify for Class 3 medical certification?” are among the repeated questions”
It is imperative that pilots have ready answers to important flight fitness questions, not only for safety, but also to protect pilots and their physicians from liability. Airmen seeking basic-med answers have crowded leftseat.com, the flight fitness website, which already provides answers to thousands of inquiries each month. Executive Director David Hale said: “Pilots want to know that they are fit and it is important the pilots have timely realiable answers to these important questions”. Pilots with questions can call 405-787-0303 or visit www.leftseat.com.
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More Gurus
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – Pilot Medical Solutions, has announced it will hire more gurus. Pilot Medical Solutions has and will continue to employ physicians as needed yet the nation’s oldest aviation medicine company, which has been providing help for pilots continuously since 1994, has found that the majority of aviation medical cases are approved by the FAA faster when aeromedical guru’s are in charge.
When the FAA’s Chief of Medical Certification retired, Pilot Medical Solutions hired him to provide aeromedical summaries for complex cases, but Pilot Medical Solutions Guru, Amanda Scruggs, says most cases succeed due to the work of document managers or Gurus, who are intimately familiar with the FAA requirements and tirelessly compile flight-fitness packets.
Gurus hired by Pilot Medical Solutions must have extensive knowledge of FAA medical criteria, experience managing government paperwork, and they must tenaciously manage the process to assure pilots with jeopardized medical issues receive FAA approval quickly.
““Our job is to assure the livelihood of pilots through timely document management.” Scruggs said, “What pilots need is someone who knows what the FAA expects and is willing to spend several hours calling, faxing, sending and reading emails, pouring over complex paperwork, working with the pilots’ personal physician to explain essential phraseology and assuring compliance with constantly changing FAA requirements. This is a labor intensive, heavily bureaucratic process which is usually counter-intuitive to doctors.”
Pilot Medical Solutions gurus are managing clients who themselves are physicians. One more indication that medical gurus are well suited to help pilots obtain FAA waivers.
Contact:
Amanda Scruggs, Pilot Medical Solutions, Inc. | 405-787-0303
Fax: 405-787-0084, Email: info@leftseat.com
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January 3, 2012 – FAA’s Aerospace Medical Division Manager Joins Pilot Medical Solutions, Inc. amid waiver case increase.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – January 3, 2012 – Pilot Medical Solutions, Inc.,(PMSI), announced that Dr. Warren S. Silberman will now provide direct consultation to airmen via Pilot Medical Solutions’ fee-for-service agreements to assist with its escalating clientele.
Pilot Medical Solutions has seen a sharp rise in Special Issuance (waiver) certification in 2011 and welcomed Dr. Silberman’s assistance. Pilot Medical Solutions’ Director David Hale stated, “we have seen a 75 percent increase in 2011 and Dr. Silberman is the perfect solution.”
As former manager of the FAA Aeromedical Certification Division, Dr. Silberman will provide key insight to airmen seeking medical certification and assurance to applicants unfamiliar with FAA standards. As the FAA’s aeromedical certification “chief”, Dr. Silberman was responsible for rules and regulations changed under his watch. “Doctor Silberman has the sine qua non combination of knowledge and empathy”, Hale stated.
Dr. Silberman served as the FAA Aeromedical Certification Chief for 14 years and was Manager of the Aerospace Medical Certification Division at the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute since June 1997. He served in the United States Army Medical Corps and Oklahoma Air National Guard as the State Air Surgeon until his retirement in 2005. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive/Aerospace Medicine, a Fellow of the American Osteopathic College of Internists, American Osteopathic College of Occupational and Preventive Medicine, the Aerospace Medicine Association, and the Civil Aviation Medical Association. Dr. Silberman is a featured speaker and author, providing regular content for the Federal Air Surgeons Bulletin and co-authored the chapter on Civil Aviation Medicine in the Fundamentals of Aviation Medicine Textbook.
Pilot Medical Solutions has built a solid reputation by providing confidential personalized service and hands-on medical case management. This expansion follows the increased demand for confidential aeromedical case management services pioneered by Pilot Medical Solutions. Pilot Medical Solutions has served the aviation community continuously since 1995.
Utilizing a unique approach, PMSI provides confidential acceleration of medical certification and administrative support for aviation medical examiners worldwide.
Contact: Sara Reed, Marketing Director, Pilot Medical Solutions, Inc. | 405-787-0303
Dr. Warren S. Silberman
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PILOTS REWARDED FOR INFORMATION
OKLAHOMA CITY – Pilots in-the-know are are being asked to refer their grounded pilot friends to Pilot Medical Solutions, Inc. an aeromedical pilot advocate firm seeking to help pilots with medical waivers in Oklahoma City.
Pilots are invited to submit names online and earn $200 for each client referred. Altruists wishing to waive compensation can pass the money on to the grounded pilot in the form of discounted services.
“This program has provided the much-needed encouragement for many pilots who have been affected by the current aviation trough,” said David Hale, Chief Executive for Pilot Medical Solutions. “While our goal is to help pilots who have lost medical certification, this program has also given active pilots a fulfilling role as they help their friends return to flying.”
The program, initially created for in-house marketing reps, became available to all pilots in October 2002 effectively revisiting the company’s 1995 birth when David Hale set out to help a fellow Bonanza pilot with his FAA medical.
Pilots can submit names online at: www.leftseat.com/rewards or by calling 405-787-0303.
Founded in 1995, Pilot Medical Solutions, Inc. is the only independent aeromedical advocate company in existence assisting more than 20,000 pilots each year via their toll-free pilot hotlines and online at www.leftseat.com.
CONTACT: David Hale 405-787-0303
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Pilot Medical Solutions – Practice for FAA Medical Certification– Pilot Medical Solutions announces Medical Protection Program
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In 1997 the FAA received over 100,000 calls and more than six-thousand pilots were authorized for Special Issuance medical waivers.Special Issuance has doubled since 1990 andone can only guess how many pilots lose hope each year, exhausted from phone calls to the FAA and medical offices, not to mention having to organize all the technical documentation essential for Special Issuance approval.
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Each Special Issuance case requires records from laboratories, hospitals, surgeons, specialists, and a personal physician. Pilot Medical Solutions is the first pilot advocate organization exclusively dedicated to pilot medical support and has provided confidential medical management for pilots with jeopardized medicals since 1996. Since that time they have amassed a 97% success rate with Special Issuance clients. Their proven system retrieves, reviews, organizes, and submits pilot records to expedite FAA medical issuance.
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Today Pilot Medical Solutions brings a new program to pilots. While AME’s are required to forward derogatory airman data to the FAA, the Medical Protection Program provides confidential preventive medical management. This program virtually eliminates premature applications which often post negative information in pilot files. “Every pilot who wants to stay in the left seat must be constantly exposed to the uncertainties of aviation medical exams. This program eliminates the uncertainty,” says David Hale, Director of Pilot Medical Solutions.
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“The solution” says Hale “is to work with pilots and their personal physicians and prequalify pilots before they apply for medical certificates.”
Pilots who do not pass the prequalification test are given goals outlining requirements for success. Most will qualify by finding a medication the FAA will approve or by making lifestyle changes; such as compliance with an exercise or nutrition prescription provided by Pilot Medical Solutions.
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The Medical Protection Program will give pilots assurance before each medical application. In addition, valuable time once lost to deferred or denied medical applications will be minimized rather than commonplace.
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Thousands of people throughout the world have been misinformed about their eligibility for FAA medical certification. If you know someone who needs an FAA medical waiverrefer them to Pilot Medical Solutions.
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