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The FAA MedXPress system allows anyone requesting an FAA Medical Clearance or Medical Certificate to electronically complete an application. Information entered into MedXPress is available to your FAA-designated Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) for review at the time of your medical examination.

The neurological standards require that a first-class airman has no history of the following: Epilepsy. Any disturbance of consciousness without satisfactory medical explanation. Loss of control of the nervous system without satisfactory medical explanation.

The FAA MedXPress system allows anyone requiring an FAA Medical Certificate or Student Pilot Medical Certificate to electronically complete the FAA Form 8500-8. Information entered into MedXPress will be transmitted to the FAA and will be available for your AME to review at the time of your medical examination.

It is not possible for applicants who have aneurysms or high blood pressure to fly because they are prone to sudden death from them while in the air. It is also possible for applicants with diabetes, epilepsy, brain tumors, and epilepsy to not be able to get a 3rd class medical certificate.

60 calendar months for operations requiring a third class medical certificate if the airman has not reached age 40 on or before the date of examination.

Once the applicant successfully completes Items 1-20 of FAA Form 8500-8 through the FAA MedXPress system, he/she will receive a confirmation number and instructions to print a summary sheet. This data entered through the MedXPress system will remain valid for 60 days.

The application for an airman medical certificate (FAA Form 8500-8) is used by the FAA's Office of Aerospace Medicine and their Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (AMEs) to record historical information provided by the pilot or controller applicant and also to record the results of the examination by the AME.

FAA MedXPress (online FAA Form 8500-8 application) MedXPress is designed to expedite the processing of a pilot's request for certification and shorten the pilot's office visit with the AME. HIMS AMEs are trained in evaluating airmen for substance- or alcohol-related conditions or other mental conditions.

Even if you are on a special issuance time-limited certificate, the FAA third class medical exam is still due only every 24-calendar months, or 60 months if you're under age 40.