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It’s not even defined as dilute outside of 49cfr40. It’s just creatinine xxx. Just a tiny bit of biomarker acumen would permit appropriate interpretation of results.

Totally up to your AME. Not unusual for a monitored retest. May choose to simply ignore it.

Used them for several rebuilds when I was running a repair station. Had no problems. Had some issues with meeting expected finish dates, but that was the height of EVERYONE having problems with supply. Top notch work, knowledgeable and stood behind their work.

This is crap. By POLICY, we put untrained flight attendants in pilot seats ROUTINELY so one of the guys can go take a leak. This is a total nothing burger. 1. If it’s anyones “fault”, it’s the air crew. 2. In single pilot jets, the right seat gets SOLD. Customers in it all the time. 3...

@RussR , oooooooh…. Ok. I’ll buy that. Weird, but not unusual. Weirder is that I can instruct in one. I asked about a CFI checkride (in the context of seaplane), they didn’t seem to really even know what I was talking about. In their defense, it makes sense. It would be stupid to change...

Maybe better put: My CFI has single engine and multi engine AIRPLANE ratings. I took a single engine AIRPLANE practical. No distinction on the CFI, so why a distinction not mentioned? That commercial practical (CP ASES) allows me to teach in the seaplane without taking a specialized...

So there I was… doing manual weight and balance at delta for YEARS during training and recurrent… in case the system went down. The system went down… turned out… ONLY the pilots were trained! Ha! System ground to a halt for a day or something. Manual weight and balance no longer taught at...

Well, that’s how I understand it. The FSDO here in Detroit seems to think I would have had to taken an “seaplane instructor” practical to be eligible to renew my CFI… and as mentioned, that doesn’t exist (although he seemed to think it does). So what practical would work? Only if I had a ASES...

While we are on the subject: I’m a CFI/MEI/CFII Airplane. Does a ASES practical renew me? I’m still current. (61.197.a.1.i)

This is the perfect discussion… which reveals the root cause. Is it a disease, or not? If so, you can’t go around saying it’s “their choice”. If not, fine, it is their choice, and a bad one, so make it an enforcement thing, not medical. Forensic vs clinical? The root problem here is the...

Well… HIMS only exists to abrogate the 2 yr requirement to get an unrestricted medical. That’s it. It’s the definition of “discretion” with respect to 14cfr67.107.a4. It’s unofficially evolved to the overencompassing useless program it is that somehow mitigates the safety issue associated...

Nor can they fine him. Certificate action is all they can do autonomously. I know they threaten fines, everyone I know that fought it, won.

Uh… faa forces HIMS victims to associate EXTENSIVELY with hoards of people “in recovery”, often advocating them to break ties with their own family (in recovery themselves or not). So this HIMS team is telling a guy to can his wife and children mother in favor of some stranger addict...

So there I was, ironically, in a T-34C… a bo on steroids… on my safe for solo check. Engine failure drill, I’m all lined up on a nice field, landing checklist… “three down and locked…” Inst: uh, do that again… Me: three down and locked. Inst: again Me: three down and locked T-34 has...

This is where it’s most common. Especially if a union is involved as they are FAR from honest about what the process really entails, or it’s applicability.