CX500T

Gotta love the VA.

I actually have a court date with them after 12+ years of fighting.

Medical condition. Started 2003 right after a round of surgeries. On FAA SI for it. Had a NAMI Waiver for it (Navy version of a SI medical)

VA "not service connected"

Call from the VA office: "You are aware that we share everything from your hearing with the FAA right?"

"Is that a threat? Because the FAA is aware of the condition you deny and has granted me a Special Issuance for it"

This is the same VA Office (Roanoke, VA) that tries to get me to file for TBI/PTSD vs what's actually wrong with me.

JohnBurke

The FAA didn't.

Perhaps you should read this, and the associated threads, more carefully.

KevinGrey400

What? Isn’t this what you wrote?

JohnBurke

Cherry pick if you like. I've written a lot more on the subject and provided links, if you'd used the search engine.

The FAA refused the military request and only complied upon legal action. Once that avenue was open, however, the FAA discovered a recurring theme of former military personnel not declaring benefits, as required on the medical application.

The FAA has also done the same with other benefits, undeclared, outside of the military. It's been going on for a number of years, and has been big news in the aviation community. Why do you not know this?

Profane Kahuna

One definition of dementia is when a person argues against themself.

JohnBurke

Former military falsifies application, violates the regulation, places career in jeopardy. Former military cries persecution when caught. It's a witch hunt, after all. In a world where a disgraced former commander-in-chief made popular lies and "alternate facts," it's become de rigueur and normalized: blame the enforcement agency when one's subterfuge and dishonesty is discovered.

Entirely preventable, of course. (Simply tell the truth). Lie, falsify, then blame the FAA: Logical, honorable.

Not.

KevinGrey400

Wait, it was a military request, ie DoD, or Veterans Administration?

That doesn’t seem right.

JohnBurke

Yes, it was. It was an internal fraud investigation. The VA reached out to other sources, incuding the FAA, to provide documentation. The FAA declined to do so. The VA took legal action, against which the FAA eventually complied. This has been discussed at length on this site. The search engine works.

CX500T

And yet some of us, who have been 100% on the up and up with the FAA have had medicals suspended or deferred because of the FAA wanting 40+ year old info in my case that they were asking me to prove a negative, that had never happened and that wouldn't have been reported on a 8500 if I held a FAA medical at the time.

I'm on FAA SIs for things that happened when I was active duty that the VA denies.

Yet the FAA after reviewing my records wanted proof I never lost consciousness in a car accident that left me with a gnarly scar on my head. When I was three.

They wanted a letter from someone else in the car proving I never lost consciousness.
dad: deceased (2017)
Sister: deceased (1982)
brother: brain damage from accident (hit on his side by dui running red light)
Me: unreliable witness because I was 3. And subject of investigation.
Mom: not going to make an elderly woman with PTSD issues relive the worst day of her life under oath.

I'll call this a freaking witch hunt.

TransWorld

I have done that since I was a child. No doctor has ever said I had that. I have to fully discount this statement.