Carl Butler Jordan

I am writing in support of the proposal outlined in docket number FAA-2012-0350. I’m a retired airline captain with 28,000 hours of flying time. My license is ATP 1177041. (As an aside, my father’s license was ATR 1887.) I’m now 79 years old. I soloed at age 16 in 1949, some 63 years ago. I enlisted in the USAF at age 19 during the Korean War, and became a 20-year-old fighter pilot. My flying experience encompasses civilian, military and airline flying. I feel that the experience garnered from LSA operations thus far - during which there have been NO accidents attributable to physical maladies - speaks volumes regarding the feasibility of allowing pilots to utilize their driver’s licenses in lieu of a Third Class Medical Certificate. Certainly, the required education and self-assessment process will adequately ensure that safe medical standards will continue to be obtained within the GA flying community. The adoption of this proposal will probably result in increased participation by pilots so affected. That can only bode well for the safe and economic future of general aviation. I certainly urge the FAA to adopt the EAA/AOPA Medical Exemption Request.