Not sure why you think that using your PCP is expected under BasicMed. I see nothing in the FAA documents that mentions anything other than the requirement for a state licensed physician.
https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/airmen_certification/basic_med/
Can you direct me and others to a reference that supports your belief that those using a non-PCP physician is somehow a convolution of the intent of BasicMed?
Just curious what I am missing.
Thanks.
Not missing anything but just my personal observation. Just one of those things I have read AOPA and EAA talking up for the last 4-5 years. It was maybe just their tone or implied but I guess I was hoping I could use my regular doctor appointments with no additional visits to doctors who did not know me. Of coarse I can, as long as they are willing to sign. Not EAA or AOPA fault that currently many PCP and AMEs are not as willing to sign as originally hoped.
Plenty of articles can be found that believed this to happen with your own physician. Like I said in my first post, this is all new and in a few months maybe my doctors will come around and be willing to sign without going to different doctor just because they are willing to sign.
In this article AOPA Baker. “These reforms put decisions about medical care back into the hands of pilots and their personal physicians, people who know them well and have an ongoing interest in their health and well being.”
See intro paragraph and point 2 here. "When your current third-class medical expires, you will need to complete the medical course online, and have your personal physician complete an exam."
See end of first paragraph in this flying article. "skip their periodic visits to an aviation medical examiner (AME) and instead take a free online aeromedical factors course every two years and visit their personal physician for a checkup every four years."
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