Thu Jul 22, 2021 5:37 pm
#1860527
On the enormous sampling number of '2', is there anything brand new circulating the AME community that means they are more likely to want a sign off that a pilot can get in and out of an aircraft and operate the controls/systems, if BMI is higher than some defined value?
I haven't had to do any sort of inflight medical verification for anyone for many years, previous ones were either about hearing or after some potential limb or joint restricting accident or operation.
Recently I had to do one with a pretty normal looking but biggish pilot - we combined it with a biennial hour flight so it cost him nothing 'extra' to get a signature for the AME, but neither of us could see why in his case anyone would think there might be any sort of problem, other than some value somewhere had been triggered. I thought nothing more about it until I heard yesterday from another instructor at another airfield who was doing the same thing on someone else, again for the first time.
I haven't had to do any sort of inflight medical verification for anyone for many years, previous ones were either about hearing or after some potential limb or joint restricting accident or operation.
Recently I had to do one with a pretty normal looking but biggish pilot - we combined it with a biennial hour flight so it cost him nothing 'extra' to get a signature for the AME, but neither of us could see why in his case anyone would think there might be any sort of problem, other than some value somewhere had been triggered. I thought nothing more about it until I heard yesterday from another instructor at another airfield who was doing the same thing on someone else, again for the first time.
Irv Lee - (R/T & Flight Examiner)
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Deconfusion & Preflight Aide-Memoire: http://tinyurl.com/pilotpal
UK GA Twittering not Tw@ering: @irvleeuk