I am hoping I can get some advice from some of you out there regarding my medical. In June 2018 I went to see an AME for my 1st class medical. In short he deferred my medical to be reviewed by the FAA because I was being seen by the VA for ptsd/anxiety. Yes I'm a combat vet, and after my service I went to flight school. Anywho I was being seen at the VA for about 1.5 years about once a month for counseling .I was on a couple medications for sleep and nightmares. However I've been medication free and treatment free for about 9 - 10 months. I received a letter from the FAA stating I will need to do a psych eval by a psychiatrist who has experience with aerospace. So I live in small town between two other small towns, and the only person who I understand can do this wants to charge 2500.00 for a 2 hour eval and is on the other one of the state. Has anyone gone through this before? I did get my basic med in the meantime but is there any other way to take care of this without spending all this money. Any advice would be great. Thanks and happy new year.
Anxiety vs medical
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I have been curious for a while. Is there any actual data that having the FAA issuing medicals improves the safety of flight?cowman said:
While it seems like it would be common sense, it is possible that it is not possible to predict very accurately when people are going to medical problems that cause flight safety issues and that people who have a problem don’t generally want to be flying. If both of those have not implausible likelihoods, it could be the case that issuing medicals does not improve safety, or at least not at a reasonable cost per life saved.
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