14 CFR §67.113
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The general medical standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:
- (a)No established medical history or clinical diagnosis of diabetes mellitus that requires insulin or any other hypoglycemic drug for control.
- (b)No other organic, functional, or structural disease, defect, or limitation that the Federal Air Surgeon, based on the case history and appropriate, qualified medical judgment relating to the condition involved, finds—
- (1)Makes the person unable to safely perform the duties or exercise the privileges of the airman certificate applied for or held; or
- (2)May reasonably be expected, for the maximum duration of the airman medical certificate applied for or held, to make the person unable to perform those duties or exercise those privileges.
- (c)No medication or other treatment that the Federal Air Surgeon, based on the case history and appropriate, qualified medical judgment relating to the medication or other treatment involved, finds—
- (1)Makes the person unable to safely perform the duties or exercise the privileges of the airman certificate applied for or held; or
- (2)May reasonably be expected, for the maximum duration of the airman medical certificate applied for or held, to make the person unable to perform those duties or exercise those privileges.