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Expectations for the FAA Physical Exam

  • November 20, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / FAA Medical Standards / Flight Physical
  • By Keith Roxo

Physical exam guidelines The FAA has specific guidelines on what they want an AME to evaluate. This is to establish a baseline level of standardization across…

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Lying on your FAA medical – What are the chances you’ll get caught?

  • November 6, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / FAA Medical Standards
  • By Dan Monlux

Let me start with a word of advice: DON’T DO IT. I will follow that up with a word of warning. You can be fined up…

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CACI for Breast Cancer

  • October 23, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / CACIs
  • By Dan Monlux

With 290,560 new cases projected through the end of 2022, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States [1]. The same…

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The Best of Both Worlds: FAA Medical with Optimal VA Disability

  • October 9, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Disability
  • By Keith Roxo

Dr. Dan Monlux and I both joined the military in the last century. Together, we have more than 50 years of military service and almost that…

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CACI for Testicular Cancer

  • September 25, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / CACIs
  • By Dan Monlux

A Personal Perspective on Cancer and Aviation I will always remember the first time I was confronted by the specter of cancer and the notion that…

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Adrenaline Deficit Disorder – A Success Story

  • September 12, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Success Stories
  • By Keith Roxo

Steve was a healthy and fit military pilot. At least he thought he was. He had been experiencing some fatigue, but he attributed it to his…

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How to Approach the VA Disability Process

  • August 24, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Disability
  • By Keith Roxo
You have probably seen us mention VA disability before here and here. Our position bears repeating: claim what you have and don’t claim what you don’t…
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Stages of Wingman Med Help

  • August 23, 2022
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Keith Roxo
AME Help | Right there under our name is “We keep you flying!” We want to help you prepare for your next, or possibly your first…
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FAA Medical Certification for Cancer Survivors

  • August 23, 2022
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Dan Monlux
Cancer. Few medical diagnoses carry the emotional shock value of that one word attached to any of its various forms. And with good reason. Even as…
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CACI for Hypothyroidism

  • August 23, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / CACIs
  • By Landon McKinley
Last year we began discussing Conditions AMEs Can Issue (CACI). These are common medical conditions such as Arthritis, Hypertension and Pre-Diabetes for which your AME can…
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FAA Disqualifying Conditions Coronary Heart Disease

  • August 23, 2022
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  • By Dan Monlux
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) goes by many names. As you might imagine, when it comes to medical certification, the FAA is concerned about all of them…
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CACI for Prostate Cancer

  • August 23, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / CACIs
  • By Landon McKinley
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among American men [1]. In fact, 11% of men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer…
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Should I Claim [ X ] on my VA Disability?

  • July 31, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Disability
  • By Keith Roxo
The FAA MedXPress populates the FAA Form 8500-8, which becomes part of your medical examination conducted by your Aviation Medical Examiner (AME). Something to understand is…
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Disqualifying Flying Career Conditions : Fainting and Falling

  • July 25, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Disqualifying Conditions / FAA Medical Standards
  • By Dan Monlux
The whole point of the FAA medical certification process is to ensure that pilots do not become incapacitated while flying. MedXpress questions 18b about “dizziness or…
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Flying and Cancer – What You Should Know

  • July 11, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Flight Physical
  • By Dan Monlux

Over the next several months, we will be writing about some common cancer diagnoses and the requirements for obtaining an FAA medical certificate after being treated…

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Pilots Brain Tumor is Back – A Success Story

  • May 26, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Success Stories
  • By Keith Roxo

In 2016 Rick* was noticing some weird things like pain in his hands and some slight vision problems. After some extensive medical evaluation, they found that…

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Tracking Your FAA Medical Exam – Using MedXPress

  • May 2, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Flight Physical
  • By Keith Roxo

Here at Wingman Med, our goal is to eliminate the need for your application for medical certification to be deferred, or at least significantly reduce the…

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CACI Pre-Diabetes and Associated Conditions

  • April 18, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / CACIs / FAA Medical Standards
  • By Landon McKinley

Diabetes has long been disqualifying under 14 CFR Part 67. In the past several years, the FAA has developed protocols to medically certify pilots with the…

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Amnesty for Failure to Disclose FAA Medical Exam

  • March 26, 2022
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  • By Keith Roxo
When you go to do your first FAA Medical exam you will start with the MedXPress questionnaire. You may be surprised at how much of your…
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Choosing an AME

  • March 24, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Flight Physical
  • By Dan Monlux

Choosing the right Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) can be a difficult task. It is no wonder that one of the most common medical questions posed in…

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CACI Migraine and Other Headaches

  • March 7, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / CACIs / FAA Medical Standards / Flight Physical
  • By Dan Monlux

Find an AME near you: Pilot Doctors

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Which FAA Medical Certificate is Right for You?

  • February 21, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / FAA Medical Standards
  • By Dan Monlux
With the introduction of the sport pilot rule in 2004, pilot medical certification became both easier and more complex [1]. Instead of scheduling an appointment with…
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PTSD and the Pilot

  • February 14, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Disability
  • By Keith Roxo

PTSD and the Pilot | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been linked to military combat operations since Vietnam in part because the condition was first…

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What’s a Pilot to do with a New Medical Concern

  • January 30, 2022
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  • By Keith Roxo
What's a Pilot to do with a New Medical Concern | Aviation is an inherently dangerous business. Some may take umbrage with that statement citing the…
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Pilots Bell’s Palsy – A Success Story

  • January 17, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Flight Physical / Success Stories
  • By Keith Roxo
Kevin* has been a military pilot for almost 20 years and was looking to make a transition to the airlines soon. However, he has a few…
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FAA Disqualifying Conditions Angina Pectoris

  • January 3, 2022
  • All Blog Posts / Disqualifying Conditions / FAA Medical Standards
  • By Keith Roxo
If you look at the list of Disqualifying Conditions you’ll probably notice that many of them are associated with the heart, almost half of the named…
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CACI High Blood Pressure

  • December 19, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / CACIs / FAA Medical Standards
  • By Dan Monlux
If you have high blood pressure - or hypertension - you’re in good company. With 116 million Americans sharing the diagnosis, about one in every two…
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A Pilots Overview of Oxygen and Pressure

  • December 6, 2021
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  • By Keith Roxo
Most people, even non-pilots, know that airlines pressurize the cabins of their aircraft. They may not know that the maximum cabin pressure allowed is the equivalent…
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Conditions AMEs Can Issue Arthritis

  • November 21, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / CACIs / FAA Medical Standards
  • By Keith Roxo
Earlier in August, we started discussing Conditions AMEs Can Issue (CACI). Today we will look at a specific one: Arthritis. At its core Arthritis is inflammation…
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Your FAA Medical Certificate

  • November 3, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / FAA Medical Standards / Flight Physical
  • By Dan Monlux

Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Your FAA Medical Certificate: What Pilots Need to Know Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) affects millions of Americans annually and is especially important…

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FAA Disqualifying Medical Conditions

  • September 27, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / Disqualifying Conditions / FAA Medical Standards
  • By Keith Roxo
Aviation and Aerospace medicine are, by necessity, defensive medicine. When faced with the unknown and how it may affect the body in an abnormal environment, discretion…
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FAA Pilots and Kidney Stones

  • September 19, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / CACIs / FAA Medical Standards / Flight Physical
  • By Dan Monlux
Kidney Stones Shouldn’t Weigh You Down for Takeoff. Don’t let them be a Bump in the Road. If you’ve ever passed a large kidney stone, it’s…
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Your First FAA Medical Exam

  • August 30, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / Flight Physical
  • By Keith Roxo

Whether you have decided to start flight training or you are an established military pilot looking to make a transition to civilian flying, one of the…

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If your AME won’t assist with a CACI, it is time for a new AME

  • August 3, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / CACIs / FAA Medical Standards
  • By Keith Roxo
Prior to 2013, an Aviation Medical Examiner was limited to one of two options when they completed a flight physical: The airman met all qualifications with…
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How to prepare for your next flight physical

  • July 21, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / Flight Physical
  • By Landon McKinley
The path to an aeromedical certificate starts by completing MedXPress. The next step is the exam, which is completed by an Aviation Medical Examiner (AME). There…
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Hypertension and the Pilot – Proof that the FAA wants you to keep Flying

  • July 7, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / FAA Medical Standards
  • By Landon McKinley

Despite the cultural beliefs that permeate the aviation community, neither the FAA, nor the Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) are out to take your wings from you. …

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Basic Med Part 2 : Should you use it?

  • July 5, 2021
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Keith Roxo
Both before and after Basic Med became law, the FAA was opposed to it. I was present at the 2018 Aerospace Medical Association annual scientific meeting…
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Simple Solutions for Complex FAA Physicals – Call Wingman Medical

  • June 28, 2021
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Dan Monlux
Simple. We are an aviation medical consulting service. Still, have questions? Let me go on. In a sense, it’s all in the name. In military aviation,…
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Environmental Heat Injuries in the Cockpit

  • June 22, 2021
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Landon McKinley
Don’t overlook the obvious. Remember the potential for environmental heat injuries in the cockpit. The idea of a pilot suffering heat exhaustion or heat stroke may…
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Basic Med Part 1 : Where did it come from and what is it?

  • June 14, 2021
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Keith Roxo
The road to Basic Med was paved by the advent of the Sport Pilot license and the subsequent lack of FAA medical requirements; only a valid…
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Top 10 Ways to Fail Your Next FAA Flight Medical Exam

  • June 1, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / Flight Physical
  • By Dan Monlux
If this title caught your attention, there is a good chance you have some concerns related to your FAA medical certificate. Fear not. The following list…
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The Value in having a Pilot be your Doctor

  • May 24, 2021
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Landon McKinley
What is the real value in having a pilot be your doctor? The prevailing fear of both the AME and the FAA are unexplainable concepts to…
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Make Sure VA Benefits Don’t Become FAA Liabilities

  • May 16, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / Disability
  • By Keith Roxo

A few weeks ago a friend of mine named Matt* reached out to me for help with his upcoming First Class medical. Matt and I flew…

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Insulin and Airline Pilots? For pilots, times are changing.

  • May 9, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / Disqualifying Conditions
  • By Dan Monlux
Let’s get right to the chase. You can get any class of FAA medical certificate if you have diabetes and use insulin. If you have diabetes…
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Pilots and Pain – Cervical Radiculopathy – A Success Story

  • May 2, 2021
  • All Blog Posts / Success Stories
  • By Keith Roxo
Nate* had been flying for over 20 years when he approached me for help. Nate is a very fit individual and had been performing a particularly…
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Why Pilots Should Focus On Health

  • April 26, 2021
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Landon McKinley
Would you fly an aircraft with high engine oil pressure? How about if there was also an issue with the fuel control system? Let’s say in…
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What Does an AME Do? All Examiners are Not the Same.

  • April 19, 2021
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Dan Monlux
Perhaps a better question to start with is what is an AME? AME stands for Aviation Medical Examiner. Simply put, an AME is a doctor who…
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Pilots and Doctors. Existential Quandary, Common Ground and Taking to the Air.

  • April 12, 2021
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Dan Monlux
Rule of an Aviator number 7 reads, “The medical profession is the natural enemy of the aviation profession.” Rule number 17 states, “It is tacit, yet…
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Flying Airplanes and A-Fib. How to Avoid Strokes and Grounding.

  • April 12, 2021
  • All Blog Posts
  • By Landon McKinley
This is a fictitious story about a pilot named Bill. The scenario that follows may sound familiar, but I assure you that I dreamt it up…
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