Hi all,
I'm about to book my EASA class 1 medical appointment and just looking for some guidance from people who've been through it before. I'm naturally a little nervous although I don't have any medical issues that I'm aware of.
Here is what the clinic told me the tests will involve, and that it would take about 5 hours:
Complete blood and urine analysis + urine drug detection.
- Nursing.- Anthropometry + ECG
- Psychology.- medical visit
- Psychiatry.- medical visit
- Cardiology.- medical visit
- Otolaryngology - Audiometry + medical visit
- Ophthalmology - Visual acuity + medical visit
- Pulmonology - Spirometry
- Final visit Air Medical Examiner
Any thing to be aware of here? I'm a bit curious in the difference between the psychology and psychiatry checks. I'm doing it in Spain (so via the AESA if that makes a difference.)
I guess I have a few main questions:
- has anyone gone through an EASA Class 1 with high myopia? - I have -7.5 in each eye which exceeds the limits of -6.0 diopters but it seems that this will be referred to the CAA(which is AESA or maybe EASA) and I'll be deemed fit after a thorough ophthalmology exam.
- how much of my medical history is relevant and needs to be prepared? - I've had surgery to remove my appendix, I'm not sure how relevant these minor hospital visits and surgeries are and if I need to prepare hospital reports on them
- same with the psychology side, in primary school I went to a child psychologist to get diagnosed for dyslexia, I don't know if this counts as a mental health issue
- is there anything to be done to prepare? I've started trying to loose some weight and do cardio exercises to improve my cardio and pulmonary health as well as avoiding alcohol and unhealthy foods, but not sure if I can actually do much to help me pass (new glasses, getting ears cleaned, etc.)