EAA Efforts Contribute To Improved Medical Certification Processes
March 2, 2007 - EAA's ongoing efforts on airman medical certification issues have helped create significant improvement in the FAA special issuance medical certification process. It was not very long ago that a huge backlog of special issuance medical certificate applications meant waits of six months or more.
EAAers should be heartened to know that they've played a role in reducing the average processing time for a special issuance medical certificate to 24 days.
Your voices were heard during Marion Blakey's Meet the Administrator Q & A session at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2005. The Administrator heard from several members about long waits for special issuance medical certificates, leading her to comment, "It's time to do an assessment. We will be taking a look at both the procedures and the resources."
