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FAA Medical Certificate Eye Exam 2nd Class Tip Commercial Helicopter Pilots

Jul 02, 2018

FAA Medical Certificate Eye Exam 2nd Class Tip Commercial Helicopter Pilots

Hello, I'm Kenny Keller the creator of Helicopter Online Ground School and author of the Amazon bestseller "Helicopter Check-Ride". I want to give you a tip today about getting your medical certificate and renewing your medical certificate and your eyes, whether you wear glasses or not. I just completed an eye exam before going to get my medical, and I'm going to tell you why that is a huge tip.

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FAA Medical Certificate Eye Exam 2nd Class Tip Commercial Helicopter Pilots

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Now to the medical tip. I want to give you a little insight on trouble I've had over the years with my medical. Never been any real physical problems other than the accident I was in where I had a back injury, which is another day another story. The thing I've always struggled with is the eye test. I'm interested to find out how many of you have had this problem. If you think about it, you're not at an eye doctor, you're at a medical examiner. Usually the people giving you the test are not optometrists; they're usually nurses.

Every year I really struggled. One year when I was even working out of state, I was full time flying for somebody else. I go down to renew my medical towards the end of the month, and the guy fails me on the eye test. I'm kind of freaking out. When he explains to me which test during the eye test I didn't fail I said, "Well I really struggled with that and I didn't really understand what she was actually asking me to do," so he gave me a retest and I passed the second time. I can tell you, when you're out there in the world working for a living, and all of a sudden you're worried about losing your medical, there's a lot of red tape if you have a problem with a medical certificate.

FAA Medical Certificate Eye Exam 2nd Class Tip Commercial Helicopter Pilots

What I've been doing the last ten years, every time I go to get my medical, I first schedule an eye appointment with an optometrist and I go get a fresh eye exam. The cool part of the story is the eye doctor that I go to is an airplane pilot, he's been giving me a test yearly now for about ten years and even he says, "Do you know what it's like to be an eye doctor and struggle with the eye test when I go to get my medical?" This particular eye doctor has had the same trouble over the years, gets frustrated and gets anxious over the eye test during the medical exam.

Now when I go to my medical I go in with a fresh examination, proof of my eye test, how well I can see with and without glasses and this year we had to make an extra test because I'm now fifty years old, so there was one requirement for the class-2 medical that changed due to my age. Go ahead and tell me I look fifty, tell me, go ahead.

The medical tip is go get an eye exam before going to the medical, so if you do have a problem you can get it rectified if you need new glasses or some other problem. You can go in with the confidence as I do, this eye doctor being a pilot, he actually writes me a letter stating that I'm going in for my medical, he's tested me with and without my glasses, what my results are, and that I should be able to pass that test with my current vision and glasses. I can tell you, it goes so much better when you can go in with the confidence that you're not going to struggle with the eye exam.

Helicopter Online Ground School was founded by Kenny Keller in 2012. He is the author of "Helicopter Check-Ride", which made Amazon #1 best seller upon release. His online video courses include Private Pilot, Commercial Pilot, Certified Flight Instructor, and Instrument Pilot. Kenny recognized a lack of quality ground training within the industry and has created a video learning platform to compliment any part 61 or 141 flight school program.

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