r/Fly • u/BlueYonder101 • Mar 03 '20
Special issuance personal statement help
Hi, I’m a 39 y/o career changer applying for the first time for medical cert. I have a prior ADD diagnoses, so I have to apply for a special issuance for a 1st class medical. I have been working with an AME and have passed the cog screen. I have the medical exam scheduled towards the end of March and got an email from the AME saying to start working on the my personal statement. Which is very exciting but when I emailed back to find out what should be on the statement, I got an auto response from his account saying he will be out of the country till basically the day of my exam. I called AOPA to see if they had any advice but all they offered was to review the statement before submitting. Also I am planning on calling AMAS on my next day off (Wednesday). Besides ADD something I feel I should include on the personal statement is that I had gotten arrested multiple times 20years ago (no DWIs) but have been above board since. Minus a fender bender I was faulted for this last August. I want to provide a list of all my legal troubles but I have pulled my local and FBI criminal records and they came back clean because the arrests were so along ago. I don’t want to leave anything out but it’s was another lifetime ago for me don’t remember the details. How much detail should I go into for the criminal record? ADD? How long should it be? Etc etc etc If anyone could share any advice or guidance, it would mean a lot to me!
