Medical Services Plan gets pilot out of FAA limbo

摘要

Ken Field has been a pilot since he was a teenager. In fact, he had his pilot certificate before his driver's license. Now as vice president of engineering for The Next Turbine Corporation, a company that inspects turbine generators for large power plants, his flying is almost exclusively for business purposes. When a medical condition prompted the FAA to require Field to undergo much additional testing, he went along with it, thinking he would cooperate with the requirements. "Officially my medical had never been denied, and I considered switching to light sport aircraft, but I really didn't want to-especially since my flying is for business," he explains.