August 20, 2013

PETITION FOR EXEMPTION

Federal Aviation Administration

This is a request for Exemption to the Standard Application process for FAA Part 125 

Certification for Medical Express. (MedEx)

MedEx is a proposed medical flight service with Boeing 737's equipped with a Dr. and 

medical life sustaining equipment on board. Planned operations are in the Western 

Caribbean off the island of Roatan in Honduras where Joseph Haley has a residence 

and there are located two year around cruise ship terminals.

The MedEx model is a proposed Emergency Medical Air Extraction Service from cruise 

port destinations through out Caribbean to US major medical services most specifically, 

but, not exclusively targeted to US cruise ship travelers. There is also significant interest 

from the cruise operators in having this service available for their staff. We have 

exposed the absence of time critical transportation to level one trauma services from 

these routinely visited cruise ship ports of call. This is proposed to be funded as a co-op 

through individual participation by a minimal daily fee when in our theater of operations 

managed directly managed through cruise ship registration. 

MedEx will provide all the normally expected documents such as an applicability 

statement to all of Part 125, operations, maintenance and training manuals and a 

maintenance program, all specific to the airplane type used.

Captain Nelson, retired Delta Airlines, has extensive current experience in Alaska Part 

135 operations and decades of Part 121 operations in Alaska, US domestic, Pacific Rim 

and European theaters. He has served both as captain and line training captain and line 

check airman compiling 50 years of commercial aviation experience. ATP 1549279

Captain Russell, retired Northern Air Cargo, has even a more diverse resume beginning 

in maintenance, inspection and culminating in Part 121 certification experience, 

operations as a line captain, instructor captain, chief pilot and director of flight 

operations again, with 50 years of commercial aviation experience. ATP 1846752 A&P 

1594474.

Joseph Haley, also retired Delta Airlines, is a heavy jet captain with extensive 

international experience in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In the 90's he applied for 

and received Part 135 certification through the Renton, Washington FSDO. Thereafter 

operated for four years without accident or incident. In the 80's Haley owned and 

operated Type Rating Training a business offering type ratings in the Boeing 727, 737, 
DC-9 and DC-10 with oversight by the Los Angeles FSDO. TRT's syllabus was ground 

breaking through exemption. ATP 1910419 CFI 1910419, FE 2015955

This exemption request is based on the unique experience set that the MedEx 

supervision team has collected over five decades. When certification is complete we 

expect to have a certification template useful as guidance to future Part 125 applicants. 

Our team could possibly serve in the designee capacity in the oversight for future 

applications. 

MedEx is requesting exemption to the Part 125 certification process and the opportunity 

to demonstrate by performance and compliance their legitimacy to hold a certificate. 

MedEx believes the need for a rapid air medical evacuation and our collection of 

experience may the trump the normal process. In this period of sequestration and 

budget cuts MedEx intends to expedite the availability to the sick or injured a vital 

medical air evacuation service. 

Exemptions are by definition a method of allowing for special circumstances essentially 

granting a privilege to those such as in the case of MedEx's management has earned 

with experience and whose intent is filling a needed essential air service in this case 

medical air evacuation.

Captains Nelson, Russell and Haley are all Boeing 737 type Rated and collectively and 

individually are line training and instructor captains and have certification, training 

program development and implementation experience along with line and proficiency 

check experience.We have previously managed two successful certifications a Part 121 

and Part 135. Allow us to offer our decades of experience in this time of sequestration 

and FAA funding restrictions to facilitate the startup of this vitally needed service.This 

will hopefully allow certification without diluting the FAA's capability to focus on needed 

safety and security areas. 

MedEx seeks complete relief from the traditional Part 125 certification oversight yet we 

will perform exactly to Part 125. The benefit is clear as MedEx has exposed the 

absence of the therefore an urgent need for time critical air medical evacuation currently 

unavailable, the public benefit is in the potential for life saving.

The MedEx depth of experience in operations, certification, training program 

development, implementation and more importantly oversight through director of flight 

operation, chief pilot, instructor, line check airman. Will provide a level of safety equal to 

and arguably substantially greater than any normal startup regardless of the amount of 

oversight by the Administrator. The team intends to streamline the process and assist in 

the Administrators goal of the promotion of air service.This will hopefully allow 

certification without diluting the FAA's capability to focus on needed other safety and 

security areas.

MedEx understands In this climate the challenges of oversight funding and welcomes 

the opportunity to to demonstrate our flight operations team is capable of creating a Part 
125 certification model. Sequestration may have diluted the FAA's current ability to 

facilitate new applications delaying or ultimately denying needed air evacuation assets. 

We would hope the Administrator would welcome the MedEx groups willingness to 

accept the task of providing an essential medical flight service through self certification 

in country's that welcome United, American and Delta Airlines operations through out 

their airports and airspace. 

Let us create and share a tool to modernize the certification process with our decades 

of experience and the utilization modern technology. We have previously managed two 

successful certifications a Part 121 and Part 135. Allow us to offer our decades of 

experience in this time of sequestration and FAA funding restrictions to facilitate the 

startup of this vitally needed service.

Joseph Ronald Haley

MedEx

3204 Point White Dr NE

Bainbridge Island, Washington 98110

1-206-349-4453

jhaley111@aol.com

International Honduras 504-9841-6459