by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Senior Aviation Medical Examiner We are at the beginning of the flu season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines the season as…
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Color Vision How & Why It Can Affect Pilots
by Dr. Bill Blank, M.D. Senior Aviation Medical Examiner © Copyright 2024. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine August/September 2024 Digital Issue Our eyes are one of our…
Ocular Certification Changes
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Senior Aviation Medical Examiner © Copyright 2024. All rights reserved Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine June/July 2024 Digital Issue The FAA ocular certification procedures are…
The Aging Pilot
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Senior Aviation Medical Examiner© Copyright 2024. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine April/May 2024 Digital Issue When I learned to fly a long…
Efforts To Speed Up Certification
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Senior Aviation Medical Examiner © Copyright 2024. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine February/March 2024 Digital Issue The FAA is acutely aware that…
Sunglasses
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Senior Aviation Medical Examiner © Copyright 2023. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine December 2023 Digital Issue Recently the Federal Air Surgeon, Dr….
AirVenture Aeromedical News
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Senior Aviation Medical Examiner © Copyright 2023. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine October/November 2023 Digital Issue From an aeromedical point of view,…
New FAA Color Vision Tests
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Senior Aviation Medical Examiner Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine August/September 2023 Digital Issue On May 31, 2023, the FAA authorized three new color vision tests…
FAA Basic Med Report To Congress
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine June/July 2023 Digital Issue BasicMed became effective May 1, 2017. Part of the law authorizing it required the FAA in…
An Internet Attack On The Federal Air Surgeon
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine April/May 2023 Digital Issue Recently I have been getting questions from airmen about changes in the PR interval which the…
An Upload Feature To AMCS
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD © Copyright 2022. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine December 2022/January 2023 Digital Issue Where did I come up with this title? Why…
Tracking Your Medical Application
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD © Copyright 2022. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine August/September 2022 Digital Issue Until recently, it was difficult to track your medical application….
Arthritis
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD © Copyright 2022. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine June/July 2022 Digital Issue Arthritis refers to painful, swollen joints with decreased mobility and…
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD © Copyright 2022. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine April/May 2022 online issue Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) is a major cause of visual…
MONOVISION
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD © Copyright 2022. All rights reserved! Published In Midwest Flyer Magazine February/March 2022 Online Issue Our eyes are usually about the same: both nearsighted, far…
Certification Issues
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD © Copyright 2021. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine – December 2021/January 2022 Online Issue Those of you who attended EAA AirVenture this…
Susan E. Northrup, M.D. FAA’s Federal Air Surgeon
Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine Online October/November 2021 issue Dr. Susan E. Northrup, M.D. was appointed the Federal Air Surgeon of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in January 2021. She…
Do You Have A Valid Medical?
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Copyright 2021. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine August/September 2021 online issue An airman will sometimes say “I am going to quit flying…
DUIs & Certification
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Copyright 2021. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine June/July 2021 Online Issue Recently I have had a couple of applicants with more than…
Kidney Stones & Flying
by Dr. Bill Blank, MD Copyright 2020. All rights reserved! Published in Midwest Flyer Magazine (online) – December 2020/January 2021 issue Kidney stones are particles which are formed in the…
Diabetes & FAA Certification
by Dr. Bill Blank, M.D., Senior AME @August 2020 All rights reserved. Published in Midwest Flyer – August/September 2020 issue The FAA has come a long way since I first…
Finding New AMEs
by Dr. Bill Blank, M.D., Senior AME Published in Midwest Flyer – June/July 2020 issue Do you know of a physician you think would make a good Aviation Medical Examiner…
Understanding What Causes FAA Medical Certification Delays & What You Can Do To Speed Things Up!
by Dr. Bill Blank, M.D.,Senior AME Published in Midwest Flyer – April/May 2020 issue I just returned from speaking at an FAA Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) refresher course in Nashville….
CBD & Why The Jury Is Still Out!
by Dr. Bill Blank, M.D. Published in Midwest Flyer – February/March 2020 issue Is CBD (Cannabidiol) the latest fad or is it a medication with the potential to help people…
Sedentary Death Syndrome
by Dr. John Beasley, M.D. Aviation Medical Examiner Professor Emeritus and Clinical Professor Department of Family Medicine University of Wisconsin – Madison News Flash: Watching TV for an hour will…