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David Megginson
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I just passed another class III medical today; I booked it on impulse a few hours before, so I didn't have days to stress over it. Medicals are a nasty way of reminding us how we're aging—just a bit tougher each time.
I thought this would be the year that I couldn't read line 8 of the eye chart without glasses, but with energetic squinting, I managed one more time (just barely), so no eyeglasses-required restriction on my license.
When I told the nurse that I suffer from white-coat hypertension (blood pressure goes up around medical professionals), she told me I was the third pilot who'd said that today. I wasn't joking, though.
The medical examiner is a plastic surgeon who does the exams on the side, so it's an interesting mix of patients in the (very posh) waiting room. I guess he's doing well, though—ten years ago he was co-owner of a P-Baron, but when I asked him about flying today, he said he's been training on jets. I doubt that's from the CAD 175 (USD 135) medical exam fees the scruffy pilot types pay him.
My best-before date is now December 2019.
I thought this would be the year that I couldn't read line 8 of the eye chart without glasses, but with energetic squinting, I managed one more time (just barely), so no eyeglasses-required restriction on my license.
When I told the nurse that I suffer from white-coat hypertension (blood pressure goes up around medical professionals), she told me I was the third pilot who'd said that today. I wasn't joking, though.
The medical examiner is a plastic surgeon who does the exams on the side, so it's an interesting mix of patients in the (very posh) waiting room. I guess he's doing well, though—ten years ago he was co-owner of a P-Baron, but when I asked him about flying today, he said he's been training on jets. I doubt that's from the CAD 175 (USD 135) medical exam fees the scruffy pilot types pay him.
My best-before date is now December 2019.
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