Can I fly jets in the air force with a pacemaker?
As a USAF Aeromedical Technician I worked in Flight Medicine with flying personnel providing health care, physicals, etc. A big part of the job was performing pysicals on Military Acdemy/ROTC applicants who receive Flying Class I exams. Those are the most involved exams and I can guarantee you there is no way any major command in the USAF would waiver the use of a pacemaker. Not even for enlistment never mind flying status. The regulation used to be AFR 160-43 that covered the procedural aspects of the flight physicals, disqualifying conditions and the waiver authority for conditions that are waiverable. Back then the major flying commands were Strategic Air Command (SAC… B-52’s, KC 135’s) Tactical Air (TAC… fighters), Military Airlift (MAC.. cargo planes like the C-5, C-130, & C-9’s) and Air Defense Command (ADCOM .. aka NORAD flying fighter interceptors). The new commands use most of the old rules so I commend your patriotism but you won’t fly nor most likely ever wear the Air Fo
