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Tips to speed up the medical process

By General Aviation News Staff · October 16, 2021 ·

In the inaugural episode of the Pilot Minute on the FAA’s YouTube channel, Federal Air Surgeon Susan Northrup, MD, MPH provides some tips you can use to streamline the medical certification process.

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  1. Frustrated Airman says

    October 21, 2021 at 11:08 am

    It’s great that Dr. Northrup is providing tips to help speed things up, but this doesn’t address the fact that the bottleneck is actually at the FAA.

    I’ve been waiting for over four months for my file to be reviewed, and I’m not alone.

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