What's up, Doc?

To get a helicopter license, you have to pass a medical examination by an FAA certified Aviation Medical Examiner (AME).

The FAA website has an AME Locator to help you find an examiner near you.

Mauna Loa Flight School requires a 3rd class medical for a private helicopter license, and a 2nd class medical for their professional program. All I need is the 3rd class.

So, I'm going to see my local AME next Monday. Hopefully it won't be quite as rigorous as the Mercury 7 astronaut tests in The Right Stuff, where they had to walk around with hoses up their butts.

While I'm on the subject, here are the first few lines from that great movie:

There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier. . .