Other medications
What published FAA guidance says about 52 medications Crosscheck files under other medications: each one's answer and, where there is one, its wait. Open a medication for the FAA's own words, the source and its date.
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 2 weeks ground trial when startingAlso called Orencia
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Aloprim, Zyloprim
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Arimidex
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 2 weeks ground trial when startingAlso called Otezla
- Do not issueAlso called Isopto Atropine
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Imuran
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 24 hours no-fly after each treatment, and asymptomatic
- Do not issueAlso called chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called CBD oil, hemp oil, cannabidiol
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 14 days initial ground trial when starting
Contraceptives and hormone replacement
Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 24 hours after the first dose for the pills and hormone products quoted hereAlso called birth control pill, hormonal contraceptive, estrogen, estradiolControlled substances and medical marijuana
Do not issueAlso called marijuana, cannabis, THC, medical marijuana- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 48 hours after the first doseAlso called Avodart
- FAA review requiredAlso called enclomiphene
Erectile dysfunction and prostate medication
Differs by what it is taken forAlso called sildenafil, Viagra, tadalafil, CialisEthyl alcohol (intranasal swab)
Acceptable in the FAA document citedAlso called Nozin- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Aromasin
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Proscar, Propecia, dutasteride, Avodart
- Do not issueAlso called prednisone, prednisolone, methylprednisolone, Medrol
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called HCG, Ovidrel
Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
Differs by what it is taken forAlso called Plaquenil, Aralen, chloroquine- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 2 weeks ground trial when startingAlso called Remicade, Inflectra, Renflexis, Avsola
Interleukin inhibitors for arthritis, psoriasis and bowel disease
Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 2 weeks ground trial when startingAlso called ustekinumab, Stelara, secukinumab, Cosentyx- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 2 weeks ground trial when startingAlso called tofacitinib, Xeljanz, upadacitinib, Rinvoq
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Femara
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called levothyroxine sodium, Synthroid, Levothyroid
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called liothyronine sodium, Cytomel
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Thyrolar
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Trexall
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 2 weeks after the first doseAlso called Myrbetriq
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 24 hours no-fly after each treatment, and asymptomatic
- Do not fly while taking itAlso called Narcan
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 48 hours after the first dose of the nasal spray (both FAA documents)Also called nicotine patch, Nicoderm, Nicoderm CQ, Habitrol
Nortriptyline for quitting smoking
Do not issueAlso called PamelorOral overactive bladder medication: oxybutynin, tolterodine, solifenacin
Do not issueAlso called oxybutynin, Ditropan, tolterodine, Detrol- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 48 hours after the first doseAlso called Pitocin
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Armour
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Urocit-K
Prednisone 20 mg a day or less, and short courses of oral steroids
Acceptable with conditionsAlso called oral steroids for asthma, low-dose prednisone, oral budesonide, budesonide enema- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 2 weeks ground trial when startingAlso called Rituxan
- Do not issueAlso called MDMA, ecstasy, molly, LSD
- Do not issueAlso called barbiturates, phenobarbital, cocaine, amphetamine
- Acceptable in the FAA document citedAlso called Avenova
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 7 days wait, as the worksheet prints it
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Azulfidine
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Nolvadex
- Acceptable with conditions
- Acceptable with conditions
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 2 weeks ground trial when startingAlso called adalimumab, Humira, Hadlima, adalimumab-bwwd
- Acceptable with conditionsAlso called Chantix, Tyrvaya
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 2 weeks ground trial when startingAlso called Entyvio
- Acceptable with conditions · Wait: 2 weeks after the first doseAlso called Gemtesa
Other groups of medications
Every medication Crosscheck has an FAA answer for, by group or from A to Z, with the answer and the wait on each line. New from the FAA in October 2026: the FAA's MedGuide, explained.
- 31 medications
- four medications
Asthma and breathing medications
five medications- 13 medications
- ten medications
- 11 medications
- 12 medications
- 24 medications
- five medications
Antibiotics and other medications for infections
45 medications- 20 medications
- 22 medications
- seven medications
- 36 medications
- 31 medications
- nine medications
- 35 medications
- seven medications
- 14 medications
- seven medications
- 17 medications
- 418 medications