Best Of The Web: Pilot Wages Public Fight To Get Her Medical Back

Remember when heart bypass surgery was taboo? Many safe (safer) pilots were permanently grounded for no good reason. Shamefully the system took away their rights to fly for at least 20 years. Remember when the FAA took away Bob Hoover’s medical because they thought he had to be crazy to fly as he did. The greatest pilot in the world grounded for medical reasons when no medical reason existed.

Xyla, you are an ambassador for all pilots rights. Keep up the fight and keep flying until this gets resolved. Expect the fight to last years. Any pilot who is tailwheel current can act as pic in the right seat of your 140, you just can’t log the time. Fly weekly with such a pilot , it is good for you and for your aircraft to be flying.