FAQs

Don’t panic. Stress will often elevate the blood pressure and a medical is stressful. You can help yourself by arriving in good time and avoiding heavy meals, caffeine and exercise before your medical.

If you wish to bring evidence that your blood pressure is usually lower, bringing in your machine or arranging a 24 hour BP reading with your GP is very helpful.

I will always tell you if an eye test is mandatory. However, if you wear glasses or contacts you should be visiting your optician regularly. If you do visit, please take this form along with you for completion which helps me understand the full results of your eye test. You must bring the latest glasses prescription with you to every medical.

CAA medicals can be completed 45 days prior to your expiry date. FAA medicals are valid until the end of the month of expiry.

Usually, yes. However, there are certain circumstances where the CAA/FAA will need more information or they may even need to make the final certification decision in which case the final decision will be deferred. I will always explain this clearly to you and you have a right to appeal my decision.

You have a legal responsibility to inform your AME if your health may be impacting your fitness to fly. The guidance material used to make decisions on fitness to fly is open-source and can be found here. I will always try to support you back to fitness should you need to be suspended from flying due to your health.

This depends on the type of flying you intend to do, your age and whether you are flying single or multi crew. A table of requirements can be found here.