Army Aeromedical Study Guide Verified Exam Questions and Answers
Latest update 2026/2027
Question:
1. What are the organizations maintaining aviation medical standards?
Answer:
AAMA (Army Aeromedical Activity), US Combat Readiness Center, USAARL (Army Aeromedical
Research Laboratory), USASAM (Army School of Aviation Medicine).
Question:
2. Who consists of the Aviation Flight Surgeon, APA (Aeromedical Physicians Assistant), AMNP
Medicine Health Care Team? (Aviation Medicine Nurse Practitioner), and Aeromedical Psychol-
Answer:
ogist.
Question:
3. What is the primary goal of the Aviation Medicine Program?
Answer:
Preventative Medicine
Question:
4. The Flight Surgeon is a crewmember.
Answer:
rated
Question:
5. What is the timeframe that an FDME or FDHS must be started and completed?
Answer:
Within a three-month period preceding the end of the birth month.
Question:
6. Who has the final approval authority of a DD Form 2992?
Answer:
The Unit Commander
,Question:
7. Describe boxes 11 and 12 on 11: Up, qualified for flying duty. Contains an effective date and a DD
Form 2992.
Answer:
expiration date.
12: Down, Disqualified for flight. Contains an effective date and
estimated duration of grounding.
Question:
8. Describe box 13 of the DD Form 2992.
Answer:
13: Remarks / Limitations. Will include FFD (Full flying duty) or
DNIF (Duties not to include flying duty). Will not contain patient privacy information.
Question:
9.
What is contained in boxes
Answer:
14: FS's signature and/or APA's, or AMNP's signature
Question:
14. , 15, and 16 of the DD Form 2992?
Answer:
15: Aircrew member's signature
16: Commander's signature
Question:
10. What is the difference of a temporary versus permanent medical disqualification?
Answer:
Temporary results in requalification within 365 days. Permanent is not likely to result in
requalification within 365 days.
Question:
11. What are the two types of FDME and how long are they Yrs, 1 year at 50 yrs and older). valid for?
Answer:
Initial (18 months) and comprehensive (5 years between 20-49
, Question:
12. What are the classes of FDME and who are the performed for?
Answer:
Class 1 - Initial for those that want to be pilots. Class 2 - Aviators, FS, DAC Pilots, and APA/AMNP.
Class 3 - Non-rated crewmembers and Aeromedical Psychologists. Class 4 - ATC and UAV operators.
Question:
13. How frequently must an FDHS be completed?
Answer:
Annually between each comprehensive FDME.
Question:
14. What is the first fuel used in aviation?
Answer:
Castor Oil
Question:
15. Who was the first to describe the relationship between work and illness?
Answer:
Hippocrates
Question:
16. Name the 3 general types of Physical, Chemical, Biological toxic hazards encountered in an
aviation environment.
Answer:
Question:
17.
Identify what toxic hazard:
Water inhaled in large quantities and oxygen inhaled in a hyperbaric chamber?
Answer:
chemical
Question:
18. What are two types of exposure?
Answer:
Acute and chronic
Latest update 2026/2027
Question:
1. What are the organizations maintaining aviation medical standards?
Answer:
AAMA (Army Aeromedical Activity), US Combat Readiness Center, USAARL (Army Aeromedical
Research Laboratory), USASAM (Army School of Aviation Medicine).
Question:
2. Who consists of the Aviation Flight Surgeon, APA (Aeromedical Physicians Assistant), AMNP
Medicine Health Care Team? (Aviation Medicine Nurse Practitioner), and Aeromedical Psychol-
Answer:
ogist.
Question:
3. What is the primary goal of the Aviation Medicine Program?
Answer:
Preventative Medicine
Question:
4. The Flight Surgeon is a crewmember.
Answer:
rated
Question:
5. What is the timeframe that an FDME or FDHS must be started and completed?
Answer:
Within a three-month period preceding the end of the birth month.
Question:
6. Who has the final approval authority of a DD Form 2992?
Answer:
The Unit Commander
,Question:
7. Describe boxes 11 and 12 on 11: Up, qualified for flying duty. Contains an effective date and a DD
Form 2992.
Answer:
expiration date.
12: Down, Disqualified for flight. Contains an effective date and
estimated duration of grounding.
Question:
8. Describe box 13 of the DD Form 2992.
Answer:
13: Remarks / Limitations. Will include FFD (Full flying duty) or
DNIF (Duties not to include flying duty). Will not contain patient privacy information.
Question:
9.
What is contained in boxes
Answer:
14: FS's signature and/or APA's, or AMNP's signature
Question:
14. , 15, and 16 of the DD Form 2992?
Answer:
15: Aircrew member's signature
16: Commander's signature
Question:
10. What is the difference of a temporary versus permanent medical disqualification?
Answer:
Temporary results in requalification within 365 days. Permanent is not likely to result in
requalification within 365 days.
Question:
11. What are the two types of FDME and how long are they Yrs, 1 year at 50 yrs and older). valid for?
Answer:
Initial (18 months) and comprehensive (5 years between 20-49
, Question:
12. What are the classes of FDME and who are the performed for?
Answer:
Class 1 - Initial for those that want to be pilots. Class 2 - Aviators, FS, DAC Pilots, and APA/AMNP.
Class 3 - Non-rated crewmembers and Aeromedical Psychologists. Class 4 - ATC and UAV operators.
Question:
13. How frequently must an FDHS be completed?
Answer:
Annually between each comprehensive FDME.
Question:
14. What is the first fuel used in aviation?
Answer:
Castor Oil
Question:
15. Who was the first to describe the relationship between work and illness?
Answer:
Hippocrates
Question:
16. Name the 3 general types of Physical, Chemical, Biological toxic hazards encountered in an
aviation environment.
Answer:
Question:
17.
Identify what toxic hazard:
Water inhaled in large quantities and oxygen inhaled in a hyperbaric chamber?
Answer:
chemical
Question:
18. What are two types of exposure?
Answer:
Acute and chronic
