Ed Burkhead wrote: > > I'm suffering from the slow turn around time at the Medical Certification > Branch, too. > > I've been grounded for type II diabetes since 1993. To make it worse, I've > needed to supplement with insulin the last three years to get my numbers in > line. This year, my treatment got good enough to meet all the FAA's published > requirements for special issuance (considering that they put effort into being > not-too-specific to allow themselves maximum control and elbow room). > > The AME did my medical exam and forwarded the packet (about an inch thick) to > the FAA back on June 26th. I'm still waiting. They had previously said that > the average turn around time was three months for special issuances. I'm now at > 3 2/3 months and frustrated. When I called EAA's medical support office, she > was having trouble (as you mentioned) getting status and I haven't heard back > yet after four working days. <sigh> > > Bet that, if they give me a special issuance, it'll date from June. <sigh> > <sigh> > > "R.J. Chevalier" wrote: > > > > Thanks for the responses. > > Regarding "stay current", the Medical Certification Branch computer that > > tracks special issue medicals has been down for over a month and is not > > expected to be up for another week. I do not know how this affects the time > > frame for actual processing, I do know I sent in my paperwork 6 weeks ago > > and they said it would take a week just to tell me current status > > (current?). It has now been 1-1/2 weeks and no call with status. It seems > > they can't do anything in a timely way. > > > > Dick in NM > > -- > Ed Burkhead > Peoria, Ill. > N3802HEd, you're absolutely correct! I had some problems getting a medical (before they relaxed the requirements) because of blood pressure. After over a year of the FAA repeatedly losing the EKG's, list of medications, etc., I enlisted the help of the AOPA rep in OK City. She did a wonderful job of ramrodding the paperwork through and I had a faxed temporary authorization about a week after, with the actual medical about a month after that. Hurray for AOPA! The darned medical still came back with the original application date so I had a two-year medical good for 9 months. ARGHHHHHH! Dave in Alamogordo, NM
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