Your Goal - AASI

• AASI = AME-Assisted Special Issuance After you have been issued a medical by the FAA for a disqualifying condition, you will probably receive a letter from the FAA permitting re-issuance by any AME contingent on bringing evidence of good medical behavior to the AME when it's time to re-up.

• Conditions for which AASI is possible: http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/aam/ame/guide/special_iss/all_classes/ better - google site:faa.gov “AASI”

• The FAA will send with your authorization for special issuance a Specification Sheet listing exactly what they need to have each year This is a very important piece of paper!

Notes:

For pilots having medical conditions that are disqualifying but not incapacitating it is possible to receive a “special-issuance” medical certificate after physician review of the medical data.

In the past, all such review was done within the FAA. As pilots have aged, this overburdened the FAA.

For well-defined stable medical conditions, the FAA has created guidelines by which AMEs can issue after reviewing the pilots' current medical data – AME-Assisted Special Issuance = AASI.

1: FAA physicians provide the first special issuance and determine the conditions of further issuance.

2: These conditions are spelled out in - The letter authorization for special issuance

- The specification sheet spelling out exactly what medical data is to be submitted.

The FAA sends a copy to the airman's last AME (in case you lose yours) and expects pilots to keep these safe: the authorization letter must be with the pilot in the airplane, and the specification sheet should be provided to the treating physician to guide reports.