Potentially doing an episode for Q2 on Tuesday or Wednesday (May 20th or 21st 2025).
What should we talk about/cover?
I feel like we haven’t done a proper FAR or AIM section in awhile so I would like to do one for at least part of the episode.
Someone’s ambitious…
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I was thinking possibly the commercial requirements… I don’t think we ever did that one and I wanna get @Dr.Badass his commercial this summer so it would be good to go over it again.
Yeah. I agree. But now I have to get it out to read too. Didn’t sign up for this.
Discussion on commercial requirements for the ~250 hour guys sounds useful for a broader audience.
My 3rd class expired recently and was looking at getting my 2nd class when I renew and maybe just get my commercial rating sorted for something to work on in 2025 and head back in the game.
I’d like to hear more from an AME sometime and current state of all that noise with where it’s headed with medications and other elements of gate keeping that keep prospective pilots from obtaining a medical suitable for professional piloting.
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You should definitely get your commercial man! Fixed and Rotor combo!!
We had a few AME’s that used to listen to the show regularly.
The issue is that there isn’t a single topic out there that I have been advised not to talk about publicly via the show or online more so than medical stuff.
These are often very knowledgeable, very credentialed individuals who are stressing this to me.
So i have reluctantly made that a rule for the show. If there was ever a way to do it on the up and up where a few of the people that I talk that kind of thing with were more comfortable with the idea I’d consider it.
The current state of the show still has me leaning against it, even though I know it would be a popular/helpful episode…
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I recently drove all the way down to Mexico and back on huge loop of the west coast and caught up on a lot of random aviation podcasts.
AOPA has their own and had an AME on touching on some topics often less discussed like depression and medications related around mental health. I thought it was a nice start to having the conversation open up more up and some kind of ultimate reform on the FAA side to avoid people lying to fly, or like the Alaska Airlines pilot that took shrooms to self medicate and almost shut off the engines on the Embraer in 2024.
My actual commercial aspirations longer term is ideally something like seaplane as a retirement job, flying around the San Juan islands all day would be the most fulfilling.
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I could think of worse retirement jobs!
That sounds like a great road trip.
I’ll have to lookup that podcast episode and have a listen.
AOPA has the resources to make sure all the I’s are dotted and T’s crossed on something like that… FAR AIM Podcast, not so much! 
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And exactly the reason I stick around. 