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NEWS & NOTES

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AOPA Pilot Protection Services guards both your pilot and medical
certificates to protect your freedom to fly (www.aopa.org/pps).

What is a CACI?
WHAT IS A CACI? Well, it’s not some new
infectious disease, but a new procedure that
will allow your aviation medical examiner to
issue your medical certificate in the office
for some medical conditions that previously
required a special issuance authorization.
CACI stands for “conditions AMEs can
issue.” The FAA physicians in Oklahoma
City and Washington, D.C., amended the
certification policy (different and easier
than having to change a regulation) for a
group of low-risk medical conditions to
eliminate the special issuance requirement.
Now, there are worksheets included in
the Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners,
the online reference guide for AMEs, for
each of the conditions that require specific
medical evaluations and testing that you will
obtain from your treating physician and provide to your AME at the time of your flight
physical. If all the requirements specified in
the worksheet are met, the AME may issue
you a medical certificate without calling the
FAA for verbal or written permission. This

BY WARREN
SILBERMAN, D.O.

AOPA Pilot
Protection Services

is much like they have been doing for the
five conditions that I have written about in
the past: high blood pressure, uncomplicated asthma, a solitary kidney stone that
has passed with no retained stones, dietcontrolled diabetes, and an uncomplicated
and healed peptic ulcer.
The CACI conditions are arthritis,
asthma, glaucoma, chronic hepatitis C,
hypothyroidism, migraine and chronic
headache, pre-diabetes conditions, and
renal cancer.
Dr. Warren Silberman is the former manager of FAA Aerospace Medical Certification and a doctor of osteopathic medicine.
A pilot since 1986, he is recognized nationally as an expert in aerospace/preventative
medicine.

ANSWERS FOR PILOTS

IS YOUR TOWER CLOSING?
NEED A REFRESHER on operations at nontowered airports? With tower closures
pending, AOPA recently teamed with
the Air Safety Institute to hold a webinar
designed to help pilots transition from towered to nontowered operations at airports
whose towers are scheduled to close. Topics
discussed include sharing the traffic pattern

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with a mix of aircraft, good communication on the CTAF, right of way, and safety
and courtesy. See the Air Safety Institute’s
Operations at Airports Safety Spolight
(www.airsafetyinstitute.org/airports
spotlight) and read more in June’s Answers
for Pilots online (www.aopa.org/members/
answers0613).

AIRPORT SUPPORT NETWORK

ON THE

MEMBER SERVICES

PROTECTING THE
AIRSPACE AS WELL
AS THE AIRPORT
TO ADDISON AIRPORT’S Keith
Craigo, being the ASN volunteer is about more than just the
airport. He was instrumental
in getting the word out to local
pilots in the Dallas-Fort Worth
area regarding a notice of proposed rulemaking that the FAA
published for the modification
of the DFW Class B airspace
area. AOPA airspace staff
reached out to him for feedback.
Craigo created a website with
details of the proposal, posted
guidance on how to submit
comments to the FAA, and created an opportunity for pilots
to share their thoughts on the
issue—more than 60 comments
were submitted to the FAA.
Although the FAA actively
solicited comments on its initial
proposal, some of the concerns
noted by AOPA and local pilots
remained on parts of the redesign. When a new opportunity
to comment was created by the
FAA’s January 2013 NPRM,
Craigo launched his own effort
to engage local pilots.
ASN volunteers not only
serve as the grassroots of
AOPA’s airport preservation
efforts, but are called upon by
staff on various aviation issues
for their feedback. From airspace to environmental issues,
the ASN volunteers are key to
AOPA’s success. Are you ready
to volunteer?

VIEW THE webinar online (https://goto.webcasts.com/

viewer/event.jsp?ei=1015318).

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www.aopa.org/asn

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