{"id":24040,"date":"2022-11-18T13:58:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=24040"},"modified":"2022-11-18T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:58:35","slug":"faa-mandates-medical-requirements-for-commercial-balloon-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/faa-mandates-medical-requirements-for-commercial-balloon-pilots\/%20","title":{"rendered":"FAA Mandates Medical Requirements for Commercial Balloon Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) adopted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/newsroom\/final-rule-medical-certification-standards-commercial-balloon-operations\">final rule<\/a> requiring commercial hot-air balloon pilots to hold medical certificates when flying paying passengers. The rule mandates a second-class medical certificate, the same standard required for other commercial pilots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/309277020_10ABQ-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24041\" width=\"285\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/309277020_10ABQ-1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/309277020_10ABQ-1-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><figcaption><em>SAJ Photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPassengers can now rest assured that commercial balloon\npilots must meet the same strict medical requirements as other commercial\npilots,&#8221; said Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, commercial balloon pilots were exempt from the\nmedical requirement. In the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, Congress directed\nthe FAA to revise the medical certification standards for commercial balloon\npilots. The rule also addresses a National Transportation Safety Board\nrecommendation that the FAA remove the exemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FAA in recent years took steps to increase the safety of\nhot-air-balloon tourism by working with the Balloon Federation of America (BFA)\non an accreditation program. The program includes voluntary standards for\npilots and operators and offers multiple tiers of BFA safety accreditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FAA published a proposed rule last November and reviewed\napproximately 200 public comments before issuing the final rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) adopted a final rule requiring commercial hot-air balloon pilots to hold medical certificates when flying paying passengers. The rule mandates a second-class medical certificate, the same standard required for other commercial pilots. \u201cPassengers can now rest assured that commercial balloon pilots must meet the same strict medical requirements as other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24042,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040\/revisions\/24042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}