Medical Day - Arghhh!
Well i must say im pretty nervous about the medical. No pass means no more flying for me - somthing i dont like the thought of. In the past ive had a few medical problems such as borderline blood pressure etc.
Anyway, off i went to see Dr Hill in Burton-upon-trent. He was a really nice guy, retired from GP but still does aviation medicals.
The medical went pretty much as follows:
Fill out a couple of forms, personal details, licence type and medical history type stuff.
(Strip down and lie on the couch)
# Blood pressure test, pulse (mine was 140/70)
# Listened to my heart
# Tapped my chest and back (not sure what this test was for)
# Pressed around my abdomen, and felt my kidneys
# ECG - for about 30 seconds tops - he printed off the results
# Weight Measurement
# Height measurement
(Get dressed)
Eye tests:
# Read standard board with letters on with each eye and then both
# Read small print up close with each eye
# Read medium print at arms length with each eye (Instrument type reading)
# He then used a contraption developed by the RAF, it sat on my nose and had bar with a guage on protruding horizontally away from my head, on the bar was a sliding cube, on the cude on each side were various text and lines. The first test he showed me some text and slowly moved the cube down the bar, towards my nose and i had to tell him when the text went blurred. The second test was the same with a single line on the cube, and i had to tell him when it appeared as 2 lines. These tests apparently test your short distance vision. On the bar is then written ages, my was about 34 - (im 32) so i passed fine.
# Color Blind test - a book with colored dots in and numbers in the dots, read out the numbers
# Peripheral Vision test: He stood in front of me (about a foot away) and told me to look at his nose, he then held his hands out behind me and waved his fingers as he brought he hands slowly around to the front, i had to say when i could see his fingers moving (whilst still looking at his nose) He repeated this above, same level and below my eye level.
# Looked into my eyes with a lense and light.
Hearing Test:
# Looked into my ears. Also closed and ear and asked if i could hear him, then repated with the other ear.
Blood Test:
# Small pin prick (similar to sugar test), dropped a small amount of blood onto some glass and in it went into a machine for 5 mins, this then came back and told him i wasn't anemic (spelling)
Peak Flow Test:
# Blow into a tube and hard and fast as you can, this moves a needle up a guage showing the flow - mine went off the scale :)
Urine Test:
# I assume this tests for all sorts, blood, sugar etc.
TESTS OVER!!!
YIPPEEEE I PASSED!!!!
Captain Jimbo is on the loose!
He actually issued me my medical certificate there and then which i was suprised about, he also went on his pc and connected to the CAA and registered me there and then, and gave me my CAA ref number - apparent he is one of 46 out of the 300 AME's that can do this.
Right - Air Law exam - here i come!
Anyway, off i went to see Dr Hill in Burton-upon-trent. He was a really nice guy, retired from GP but still does aviation medicals.
The medical went pretty much as follows:
Fill out a couple of forms, personal details, licence type and medical history type stuff.
(Strip down and lie on the couch)
# Blood pressure test, pulse (mine was 140/70)
# Listened to my heart
# Tapped my chest and back (not sure what this test was for)
# Pressed around my abdomen, and felt my kidneys
# ECG - for about 30 seconds tops - he printed off the results
# Weight Measurement
# Height measurement
(Get dressed)
Eye tests:
# Read standard board with letters on with each eye and then both
# Read small print up close with each eye
# Read medium print at arms length with each eye (Instrument type reading)
# He then used a contraption developed by the RAF, it sat on my nose and had bar with a guage on protruding horizontally away from my head, on the bar was a sliding cube, on the cude on each side were various text and lines. The first test he showed me some text and slowly moved the cube down the bar, towards my nose and i had to tell him when the text went blurred. The second test was the same with a single line on the cube, and i had to tell him when it appeared as 2 lines. These tests apparently test your short distance vision. On the bar is then written ages, my was about 34 - (im 32) so i passed fine.
# Color Blind test - a book with colored dots in and numbers in the dots, read out the numbers
# Peripheral Vision test: He stood in front of me (about a foot away) and told me to look at his nose, he then held his hands out behind me and waved his fingers as he brought he hands slowly around to the front, i had to say when i could see his fingers moving (whilst still looking at his nose) He repeated this above, same level and below my eye level.
# Looked into my eyes with a lense and light.
Hearing Test:
# Looked into my ears. Also closed and ear and asked if i could hear him, then repated with the other ear.
Blood Test:
# Small pin prick (similar to sugar test), dropped a small amount of blood onto some glass and in it went into a machine for 5 mins, this then came back and told him i wasn't anemic (spelling)
Peak Flow Test:
# Blow into a tube and hard and fast as you can, this moves a needle up a guage showing the flow - mine went off the scale :)
Urine Test:
# I assume this tests for all sorts, blood, sugar etc.
TESTS OVER!!!
YIPPEEEE I PASSED!!!!
Captain Jimbo is on the loose!
He actually issued me my medical certificate there and then which i was suprised about, he also went on his pc and connected to the CAA and registered me there and then, and gave me my CAA ref number - apparent he is one of 46 out of the 300 AME's that can do this.
Right - Air Law exam - here i come!
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