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  1. Bonanza

    Pre-emptive Sleep Study before Medical?

    Why not just lose some weight ??? Stephen.
  2. Bonanza

    Cataract surgery

    Before you even think of cataract surgery try a few months on this stuff. It dissolved my cataracts, cleared up my night vision issues and reduced floaters. Well worth a try. https://goodlifelabs.com/shop/zeonetix-vision-protection-formula/ Stephen.
  3. Bonanza

    revoked medical for FAA falsification

    Interesting how everyone here cites with authority what the FAA position will be but no one cites any cases where action has been taken. Any concrete evidence out there of what the FAA actually does and in what circumstances? Stephen.
  4. Bonanza

    Lightspeed Headsets

    This is what everyone always says about Lightspeed. It seems that most of their customer's have had to send their headsets back for something. In the 40 years I've been using DC's I've only once had to send one back and they completely refurbished it for free. My current ones are 15 years old...
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    English Proficiency

    I had to get the magic words on my license in order to fly abroad. I went down to the FSDO, chatted with the inspector in my British/Kiwi accented English who issued a temporary license on the spot. A couple of weeks later my new 'English Proficient' credit card license arrived in the mail. I...
  6. Bonanza

    Does ADHD exist? Or is it a result of over-analyzing kids?

    I really admire parents like you. There are so many that are so quick to rush to judgement who have never had the real life experience and trauma that you have. You are handling this with maturity and should be proud of your parenting. You have my deepest respect. Stephen.
  7. Bonanza

    Checklists

    and after a story like this you have the nerve to say to me that you would not sign me off because I don't use a checklist. You are obviously so tied to a check list that if it isn't on there you can't think clearly enough to realize it needs to be done. Personally I prefer my way to yours. I...
  8. Bonanza

    Sleep Apnea - new FAA Guidelines to AME - be prepared!

    Also it beats me why they are putting so much effort into an issue that is not a problem. There may be a few, but I can't recall a single accident report where on a private operation Sleep Apnea has been cited as a probable cause. Pilots are not falling asleep at the controls and dropping out...
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    Checklists

    I totally agree with all of you who support thinking about what you are doing rather than just reading a checklist by wrote. Personally I don't use a pre-flight checklist. I have owned my Bo for over 25 years and am quite familiar with it by now. I generally use a printed checklist when I fly...
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    I was previously deferred due to a SSRI but I'm no longer taking it

    I do know that in 20 years of flying an N reg aircraft there no one ever asked to see my license or medical so I guess it doesn't really matter one way or the other. I flew to Australia, New Caledonia and several other Islands. The only time I ever got asked for documents was when I flew the Bo...
  11. Bonanza

    Flight Following is Fantastic

    Wow! I used to fly them back home 30 years ago (We call them Harvards) in dogfight displays at airshows. They were all ex military and I just assumed that they had all been retired. A great fun airplane to fly with a rather out of balance noise to performance ratio. If anyone ever gets the...
  12. Bonanza

    Sleep Apnea - new FAA Guidelines to AME - be prepared!

    This is a crock of sh*t. I did the questionaire at this website and with a BMI of 24, no snoring or other indications but a neck size over 15" and no other negative indications it predicted a HIGH likelihood of OSA and said I should immediately come to them for an evaluation. At 6'2", if I had...
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    Flight Following is Fantastic

    Do the military still use T6's? Stephen.
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    Flight Following is Fantastic

    I use Flight Following on every VFR flight, even when it is just a 20 minute hop to go see my daughter. You can't beat another pair of eyes looking for traffic and it's nice to know that someone knows where you are should something happen. In thousands of hours have never ever filed a VFR...
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    I was previously deferred due to a SSRI but I'm no longer taking it

    To be honest, I am not sure what the rules are. When I used to keep my N reg Bo in NZ I flew with an NZ license and medical because I was also flying NZ reg planes. I believe that you can still fly an N reg plane there on a US license so I would presume that if the medical requirement were to...
  16. Bonanza

    We are closer than ever, please contact your representative

    I do not have, nor do I wish to have any knowledge at all of the good doctor's personal finances. I am sure that in the years when he was able to make a very good living from his vocation he did so and, by his own admission, when Obamacare threatened that lucrative income he decided to work in a...
  17. Bonanza

    I was previously deferred due to a SSRI but I'm no longer taking it

    Personally I would contact Gary Crump at AOPA he has many resources that will point you in the right direction. That is part of the problem which results in many airmen taking one of 4 possibly outdated and probably unsuitable medications. What we have is probably better than nothing, but...
  18. Bonanza

    Medical procedure a little embarrassing

    As a psychologist that specializes in Erectile Dysfunction I can assure you that there are many more likely reasons why circumcision might be recommended. If it were purely cultural then personally I would not go ahead with it. If there is a good and valid physical reason then, painful as it...
  19. Bonanza

    We are closer than ever, please contact your representative

    Other doctors seem to have survived. Like I said I don't know his reasons, but we do know that he currently has an aeromedical practice and (presumably) makes money from doing pilot medicals. Nothing wrong with that at all, but a strong motivator to resist abolition. Defending it ad infinitum...
  20. Bonanza

    Changing mx logs from tenths to hr+mn

    I ran a check on my tach and it is accurate at about 2400 RPM. I usually fly at 2300 so with the low revs at taxi speeds I use the tach time and probably get a pretty accurate overall read of actual flight time for maintenance purposes. However I am old enough with enough grey hair that I still...
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