Sleep medications
What published FAA guidance says about nine medications Crosscheck files under sleep 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.
- Do not fly while taking it · Wait: 30 hours after the last doseAlso called Lunesta
- Do not fly while taking itAlso called kava-kava, kratom, valerian root
- Generally acceptable
- Do not fly while taking it · Wait: 24 hours after the last doseAlso called Rozerem
- Do not fly while taking it · Wait: 72 hours after the last doseAlso called Restoril
- Do not fly while taking it · Wait: 12 hours after the last doseAlso called Sonata
- Do not fly while taking it · Wait: 24 hours after the last dose (Ambien and Ambien CR)Also called Ambien, Ambien CR
- Do not fly while taking it · Wait: 48 hours after the last doseAlso called Zolpimist
Zolpidem: Edluar and Intermezzo
Do not fly while taking it · Wait: 36 hours after the last doseAlso called Edluar, Intermezzo
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
- 35 medications
- seven medications
- 14 medications
- seven medications
- 17 medications
- 52 medications
- 418 medications