Medical got deferred due to my stupidity, now what?

Posted by Admiral_Gecko@reddit | flying | View on Reddit | 70 comments

Yeah let this be a cautionary tale about not making such obvious mistakes. I went in a couple weeks ago for my 1st class medical, but before I went in I ate a large meal and chased it down redbull. Well thanks to that my AME noticed my heart rate was unusually high sitting still, I tried to explain my mistake but he didn’t believe me and gave me two weeks to come back with a letter from my GP saying I’m fine. I managed to cram multiple heart tests in the span of two weeks and in the end my GP basically said “yes you are perfectly healthy, just a idiot”. I missed the deadline to submit by hours so now I got deferred, now what? All my tests came back normal; EKG, X-ray, Ultrasound, Holter, and blood work. They said someone will call me but idk when. This has been a very expensive and time consuming mistake and I have seriously learned my lesson. I have a third class medical and my PPL, the first class is needed for my part 141. Hope people, if not learned from this, at least found it amusing.