FAA 3rd class medical and student certificate. Criminal record question?

Question by Henry: FAA 3rd class medical and student certificate. Criminal record question?
I have recently just started flight lessons in the hopes of obtaining my PPL. However, in October of 2009 I was charged with a couple things after a party I was at got busted. First was underage drinking (MIP) and possession of marijuana.

The marijuana wasn’t mine, baggie stuffed under the couch that I was sitting at drinking at the party. I went to court on the advice of my public defender I pleaded guilty to MIP and disorderly conduct (amended charge from poss. marijuana).

I have wanted to fly for a while and refrained from smoking marijuana (and drinking and driving) knowing it could seriously mess up my plans to become a pilot.

I know that I’ll have to disclose the both charges which is no problem. My worry is during a further investigation they’ll notice that it was a disorderly conduct amended from poss. of marijuana and the FAA will think I was lying about not using “illegal substances within 2 years” on my medical application. Which could create huge problems.

So my question is will my circumstances create gigantic problems, and prevent my from obtaining my goals? Or am I just over complicating it and the AME will simply look at my convictions with no further investigation?

Best answer:

Answer by Live Green
The problem is society is so screwed up it’s going to be hard to
get this overlooked or accepted to many problems already in the pipeline. See what i mean no pun intended.

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