FAA "Courtesy Call" after Basic Med

[don.olandese]

I completed BASICMED a couple of months ago, overseas, with a family practice doctor in a military facility, and placed the completed and signed checklist in my log book at my current and FAA-reported address. the FAA database, however, shows my latest third class medical from 2013 and NONE under BASICMED. why should i correct it? i have complied with the regs, can prove such if i need to, and see no benefit to assuring that their info is up to date. the whole idea of BASICMED was to minimize upkeep, paperwork, unnecessary effort, right?

as for privacy, as an aside, i am probably in so many databases that have already been hacked that i no longer have much of an expectation of personal information privacy. comments?

[flion]

Originally Posted by don.olandese

I completed BASICMED a couple of months ago, overseas, with a family practice doctor in a military facility, and placed the completed and signed checklist in my log book at my current and FAA-reported address. the FAA database, however, shows my latest third class medical from 2013 and NONE under BASICMED. why should i correct it? i have complied with the regs, can prove such if i need to, and see no benefit to assuring that their info is up to date. the whole idea of BASICMED was to minimize upkeep, paperwork, unnecessary effort, right?

as for privacy, as an aside, i am probably in so many databases that have already been hacked that i no longer have much of an expectation of personal information privacy. comments?

Did you complete the online course and take the test? The last part of the test asks you to put in the date of your physical and neither date gets updated in your record until it has been completed. In fact, it took a few days to update, but if it's been a couple of months then you should probably look into it because the FAA probably considers you non-compliant. Just having the checklist is not enough.

[don.olandese]

i took the test long before i had the exam and completed checklist. guess that's why! will figure out whether and how to get compliant in the eyes of father FAA as soon as i am back in the states.
thanks!

[BobTurner]

Originally Posted by don.olandese

i took the test long before i had the exam and completed checklist. guess that's why! will figure out whether and how to get compliant in the eyes of father FAA as soon as i am back in the states.
thanks!

Yes, you did it backwards. Exam first, then on-line 'test'.

[Flyin'Bryan]

Originally Posted by don.olandese

i took the test long before i had the exam and completed checklist. guess that's why! will figure out whether and how to get compliant in the eyes of father FAA as soon as i am back in the states.
thanks!

Flion is correct, as is Bob. At the end of the online course from the AOPA site you are required to enter the information for your medical exam completion date, doctor's name, etc. before you are allowed to obtain your course completion certificate and officially "finish" the course. So my question would be did you complete this form at the end of the course? if you had not yet completed the exam with your doctor you would not be able to complete this information on the form at the end of the course.

That would be about the only way I could think of that your Basic Med info has not been updated by the FAA, short of them not getting it entered properly or there being some issue with the transfer of the info from AOPA to the FAA. So if that is what happened, then yes, you should take the online course and make sure you fill out the info on the form at the end and ensure it has been saved and sent to the FAA. I believe also states that you need to keep the record of both the completion certificate AND your signed doctor visit completion form with your logbook (I might be wrong about that, but I think that is the case.)

As an aside update to my original predicament - I still have not received my mystery snail mail from the FAA. Gotta love it!

[RV7A Flyer]

Originally Posted by Flyin'Bryan

Flion is correct. At the end of the online course from the AOPA site you are required to enter the information for your medical exam completion date, doctor's name, etc. before you are allowed to obtain your course completion certificate and officially "finish" the course. So my question would be did you complete this form at the end of the course? if you had not yet completed the exam with your doctor you would not be able to complete this information on the form at the end of the course.

That would be about the only way I could think of that your Basic Med info has not been updated by the FAA, short of them not getting it entered properly or there being some issue with the transfer of the info from AOPA to the FAA. So if that is what happened, then yes, you should take the online course and make sure you fill out the info on the form at the end and ensure it has been saved and sent to the FAA. I believe also states that you need to keep the record of both the completion certificate AND your signed doctor visit completion form with your logbook (I might be wrong about that, but I think that is the case.)

As an aside update to my original predicament - I still have not received my mystery snail mail from the FAA. Gotta love it!

Make sure your doctor provides their license number. I had to ask my doc's office staff a couple of times to include it on the signature page. IIRC, the on-line certificate stuff needs that data.

[Flyin'Bryan]

Joe you are correct - you do also need to enter your doctor's state issued license number on the online form, and this comes from the form that the doctor signs after your exam.

And while we are on that subject, if you are ever checked or asked by the FAA to produce your Basic Med credentials, the doctor's signature and his license number and the date of the exam need to be on that hard copy record that you show to them. So be sure to tell your doctor to fill all that out when they do your exam.

You know - i's dotted and t's crossed, numbers entered and all that stuff....