Americans with Disabilities Act

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Here is an interesting question. Is the FAA pilot medical certification a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act? Like if they deny someone a medical because he/she has a certain disability, is that considered discriminatory under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
 
Geico266 said:
Flying is a privilege, not a right.
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About 70 or 80 years ago congress wrote into law that "A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace."

I like to think that "right" has some useful meaning, but I can be foolishly optimistic.

With respect to ADA though, I can find nothing in the ADA statute that affects FAA medical requirements; I scanned this source:
http://www.ada.gov/pubs/adastatute08.htm
 
Doggtyred said:
From the wiki article you linked to:

By the early 1990s only two states still listed suicide as a crime, and these have since removed that classification

So... I ask again.. what laws against suicide?
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That such laws have existed until very recently appears to me, at least, to be sufficient to the point being made.
 
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