Drivers License Medical

[EdLarkin]

Taken from an AOPA release (in my email).

"The General Aviation Pilot Protection Act would allow pilots to use the driver's license medical standard for noncommercial VFR flights in aircraft weighing up to 6,000 pounds with no more than six seats. That includes virtually all single-engine airplanes with six or fewer seats, including Beech Bonanzas, as well as many light twins like the Piper Aztec, Beech Baron 55 and 58, and Cessna 310."

Introduced today by Reps. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) and Sam Graves (R-Mo.)

Looks like some folks are tired of waiting on FAA to move.

 

[Jim Logajan]

It doesn't even have a HR # yet...But we need to keep watching.

It appears that my rep, Peter DeFazio, is on the Aviation subcommittee, so I suppose I should be contacting him asking for him to support it. I see DeFazio was in the Air Force reserve '67 to '71. He is also a liberal/progressive and the bill so far has mostly Republican cosponsors.

If someone can suggest an approach that might appeal to him, that would be appreciated.