Continuing Education

Aside from ultralights or any "sport class" aircraft, under what circumstances is it possible for a pilot without a medical to legally fly as PIC in a regular powered fixed-wing aircraft?"

I'd like you to think back a minute. The last time you practiced stalls, either with a flight instructor or on your own perhaps, how did you go about it? "

You might not think of it this way, but for the vast majority of us who are based at non-towered or so-called "uncontrolled" airports, every time we take off, land, or practice flying in the traffic pattern, it can seem about as care-free as being in a combat zone. If you've ever been number three on downwind, or flown an older training aircraft into the sun while in the pattern at a busy airport (and then realized just how hopelessly crazed the windshield was), or had your own personal NMAC thrill as someone breezed blithely by not 100 feet away, then you know what I mean.