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The FAA’s drug and alcohol testing regulation, 14 CFR part 120, requires an employer or its Medical Review Officer (MRO) to report the following drug and alcohol test results to the FAA within 2 working days of the verified, confirmed, or refusal result:

• All verified positive drug test results or refusals to submit to test for individuals that hold or would be required to hold an airman medical certificate issued under 14 CFR part 67;
• All alcohol misuse violations (including a confirmed result with a breath alcohol concentration of 0.04 or greater; on-duty use; pre-duty use; use following an accident; or refusal to test) for individuals that hold or would be required to hold an airman medical certificate issued under 14 CFR part 67;
• All refusals to submit to drug or alcohol testing for individuals that hold a certificate issued under 14 CFR part 61, 63, or 65.   

Although not required, an employer may report other individuals who have a verified positive drug test result, alcohol misuse violation (including a confirmed alcohol result of 0.04 or greater; on-duty use; pre-duty use; or use following an accident), or refusal of a DOT/FAA drug or alcohol test. The Drug Abatement Division provides sample forms to report any of the above information. 

If the employee is a pilot, an employer must enter the violation into the Pilot Records Database (PRD) in accordance with 14 CFR part 111, § 111.220. For more information, please review our related FAQ.  If you have questions about the PRD or need help accessing the system, please contact the FAA’s PRD support office at 9-amc-avs-PRDSupport@faa.gov. 

If you have any further questions or need additional guidance that is more specific to your situation, please contact the FAA’s Drug Abatement Division at (202) 267-8442 or drugabatement@faa.gov.

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Applicable Regulations:

14 CFR § 120.111(d)
14 CFR § 120.113(d)
14 CFR § 120.221(c) and (d)
14 CFR § 111.220

Visit the Key Officials page for a list of Regional Administrators by area served: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ara/key_officials/.

Entities that possess the technical capability to administer the test electronically may apply. Find more information about applying to become a test administrator.

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Contact our Aircraft Certification Office or Manufacturing and Inspection District Office for your location.

Should you experience any AMCS issues or have any questions, please contact the AMCS Technical Support team via email or phone:
AMCSsupport@faa.gov
405-954-3238
 

For help with FAA MedXPress account, logging in, account lock-out, guidance with the operation of MedXPress, contact the FAA MyIT Service Center: 

• By e-mail: helpdesk@faa.gov (Monitored 24/7)
• By phone: 1-844-FAA-MyIT (1-844-322-6948) (Monitored 24/7)

FAA MyIT Service Center cannot answer questions related to entries on the application. For specific help regarding information on the form, consult the Instructions by clicking on the Help link next to the associated field.

Note: You must answer all three security questions correctly in order for FAA MyIT Service Center to reset your password.
 

Visit the Department of Transportation's Aviation Consumer Protection website to make a complaint about airline service.

Have questions about registration? You can send us an email or call at 844-FLY-MY-UA (844-359-6982).

Live phone support is also available at 844-FLY-MY-UA (844-359-6982) from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday.

Any person exercising the privileges of any of the following certificates: airline transport pilot certificate, commercial pilot certificate, private pilot certificate, recreational pilot certificate, flight instructor certificate (when acting as pilot in command if serving as a required pilot flight crewmember), flight engineer certificate, flight navigator certificate, or student pilot certificate. People exercising private pilot privileges under BasicMed (or exercising any pilot privilege in a balloon or glider) are not required to hold a medical certificate.

Except for a person employed by the FAA, a branch of the military services or the Coast Guard, a person acting as an air traffic control tower operator also must hold a medical certificate.

Contact the National Park Service for information about how to obtain a clearance to fly a drone in national parks over towers.

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Your account confirmation e-mail will include a temporary password to let you log into FAA MedXPress. So that your account remains secure, you will be required to change your password when you first log in. Passwords must begin with a letter, contain between 8 and 12 characters and include at least three of the following four character groups: English upper case characters (A through Z); English lower case characters (a through z); Numerals (0 through 9); Non-alphabetic characters (such as !, $, #, %). Passwords are case sensitive.

Response by the Federal Air Surgeon
To clarify that, if your most recent records on file with the FAA indicate that you were found ineligible to exercise airman privileges for medical reasons then, in the interest of public safety, you shouldn't go out right away and use your driver's license as medical qualification.

We understand that these conditions may not have been expected and may disappoint some people. That was not our intent, nor is it our intent that affected persons would have to maintain an airman medical certificate if they would rather use their current and valid U.S. driver's license to medically qualify as a sport pilot.

We ultimately concluded that, in those cases where the FAA has existing knowledge of medical ineligibility, we need the affected person to address it and, hopefully have it resolved. To meet the intent of the rule, the affected person should apply for reconsideration of their eligibility. In some denial cases, applicants simply may not have provided enough information to the FAA or may not have supplied information that the FAA may have requested. In certain other denial cases, applicants may not have exercised their appeal rights, which could have led to certification in some cases.

The FAA wants to see as many pilots as possible take advantage of this exciting new rule and looks forward to working with individuals seeking to exercise sport pilot privileges. We also intend to work with EAA, AOPA, and other industry groups toward that end.

On each AMCS data entry screen, there is a Navigation bar at the top as well as Next Page and Previous Page buttons at the bottom. Use these buttons to navigate forward and backward while entering data into the application. Using the provided navigation buttons ensures no data is lost.
 

Date of Issue

The date of issue on an airman certificate must correspond to the date the current Administrator signs it. To be valid, it must also be consistent with our current certificate format.

Employment Verification

You should not use the date of issue as employment verification. A certified copy of your complete airmen certification records will verify the date you got your mechanic certificate and rating(s).

Request a Copy of Your Records

To request a copy of your airman records, download and send this form or send a signed, written request with your:

• full name (as it appears on the certificate/please print),
• your date of birth,
• place of birth, social security number,
• certificate number,
• class of certificate,
• street address, city, state, and
• zip code

Mail to:
FAA Airmen Certification Branch
AFS-760
P.O. Box 25082
Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0082

We will include an invoice stating the total charges due along with your airman file.

Date of Issue
The date of issue on an airman certificate must correspond to the date the current Administrator signs it. To be valid, it must also be consistent with our current certificate format.

Employment Verification
You should not use the date of issue as employment verification. A certified copy of your complete airmen certification records will verify the date you got your mechanic certificate and rating(s).

Request a Copy of Your Records
To request a copy of your airman records, download and send this form or send a signed, written request with your:

• full name (as it appears on the certificate/please print),
• your date of birth,
• place of birth, social security number,
• certificate number,
• class of certificate,
• street address, city, state, and
• zip code

Mail to:
FAA Airmen Certification Branch
AFS-760
P.O. Box 25082
Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0082

We will include an invoice stating the total charges due along with your airman file.

Date of Issue
The date of issue on an airman certificate must correspond to the date the current Administrator signs it. To be valid, it must also be consistent with our current certificate format.

Employment Verification
You should not use the date of issue as employment verification. A certified copy of your complete airmen certification records will verify the date you got your mechanic certificate and rating(s).

Request a Copy of Your Records
To request a copy of your airman records, download and send this form or send a signed, written request with your:

• full name (as it appears on the certificate/please print),
• your date of birth,
• place of birth, social security number,
• certificate number,
• class of certificate,
• street address, city, state, and
• zip code

Mail to:
FAA Airmen Certification Branch
AFS-760
P.O. Box 25082
Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0082

We will include an invoice stating the total charges due along with your airman file.

Due to the need to generate detailed noise results over large areas, noise modeling is the only practical way to accurately and reliably determine geospatial noise effects in the surrounding community when analyzing proposals related to aviation noise.

The many challenges and limitations to using noise measurements for evaluating airport vicinity noise are summarized below:

• Non-aircraft sound can have a large influence on noise monitoring data, which can be difficult to separate from aircraft noise during data post-processing.
• Long-term (e.g., year-long) noise monitoring requires regular maintenance and calibration of the individual noise monitors on a continuous, year-round basis, which has considerable costs.
• To ensure the same accuracy and fidelity of data generated by noise models, an extremely large number of noise monitoring locations is required. (e.g. tens of thousands of noise monitors, collecting year-round data in the vicinity of an airport would be needed to match the fidelity and accuracy of noise modeling).
• Noise monitoring data is not capable of analyzing either "what if" scenarios or proposed future action airport and air space scenarios

Proposed actions and decisions by FAA officials are subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The FAA is responsible for complying with the procedures and policies of NEPA and other environmental laws, regulations, and orders applicable to FAA actions. The FAA decision-making process must consider and disclose the potential impacts of a proposed action and its alternatives on the quality of the human environment. In meeting its NEPA obligations, the FAA should seek to achieve the policy objectives of 40 CFR § 1500.2 to the fullest extent possible. The FAA must integrate NEPA and other environmental reviews and consultations into agency planning processes as early as possible.

Environmental issues should be identified and considered early in a proposed action's planning process to ensure efficient, timely, and effective environmental review. Initiating the appropriate level of environmental review at the earliest possible time facilitates the NEPA process. Specific FAA actions subject to NEPA review can include, but are not limited to, grants, loans, contracts, leases, construction and installation actions, procedural actions, research activities, rulemaking and regulatory actions, certifications, licensing, permits, plans submitted to the FAA that require the FAA's approval, and legislation proposed by the FAA.

It is required by law. See 49 U.S.C. § 44809(a)(7). Recreational pilots may carry proof of The Recreational UAS Safety Test (TRUST) passage in an electronic or paper format.

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Individuals with a foreign address are required to designate an Agent for Service in the United States.  Please see the USAS FAQs posted on the USAS portal for more information about the FAA rule published on October 8, 2024.