An application for an aviation medical certificate must be submitted online via the MedExpress link below before you can schedule your medical exam. After submitting your application, you have 60 days to complete a medical exam or the information is deleted. If your application is no longer valid on the day of your appointment, the visit will have to be rescheduled.

https://medxpress.faa.gov/MedXpress/Disclaimer.aspx

There are many conditions that require an outside physician (a psychiatrist, for example) to review your entire FAA medical record. To have your medical record sent to an outside physician, please submit the below form to the FAA.

https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Form/8065-2.pdf

Certain ophthalmic diseases and surgeries (such as conductive keratoplasty) require an Eye Exam Form to be completed by your eye doctor and submitted to the FAA for review during the medical certification process.

https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Form/FAA_Form_8500-7_Exp_10.31.24.pdf

Medical certificates that are lost or accidentally destroyed may be replaced upon proper application provided such certificates have not expired. These requests cannot be fulfilled by our office; a snail mail request must be submitted to the FAA.

https://www.faa.gov/ame_guide/app_process/general/replacement

Conditions AMEs Can Issue (CACI) is a series of conditions which allow AMEs to regular issue if the applicant meets the parameters of the CACI Condition Worksheet. The worksheets provide detailed instructions to the examiner and outline condition-specific requirements for the applicant.

https://www.faa.gov/ame_guide/certification_ws

Following the granting of an Authorization for Special Issuance of a Medical Certificate (Authorization) by the AMCD or RFS, an Examiner may reissue a medical certificate to an applicant with a medical history of an initially disqualifying condition once the AASI's specialized criteria is met and the applicant is otherwise qualified.

https://www.faa.gov/ame_guide/special_iss/all_classes

The list of medications referenced below provides aeromedical guidance about specific medications or classes of pharmaceutical preparations and is applied by using sound aeromedical clinical judgment. This list is not meant to be totally inclusive or comprehensive. No independent interpretation of the FAA's position with respect to a medication included or excluded from the following should be assumed.

https://www.faa.gov/ame_guide/pharm

There are medications for which examiners should not issue the applicant without clearance from the FAA and medications which can seriously degrade pilot performance, for which the examiner should advise airmen to not fly and provide additional safety information to the applicant. For details, see Do Not Issue – Do Not Fly.

https://www.faa.gov/ame_guide/pharm/dni_dnf

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Recent changes to the color vision testing requirements went into effect on 1/1/2025. This applies to new applicants who have never held a certificate, and those who currently hold a 3rd class with a SODA/LOE for color vision who want to upgrade to 1st or 2nd class.

FAA Color Vision Flow Chart

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