It was, as always, a pleasure and yes, the SACAA in particular would seemingly ban any pilot they can get their claws into. Whether this is because their CMO received training in Alabama or whether she is just a useless appendix is something I don't know. That's the tautology as applied to her by a renowned urologist of my personal acquaintance in Johannesburg.
My UK AME tells me that for a Class 1 in the UK................
(There is no fixed protocol for return to flying duties after a total hip replacement. All being well with the procedure I would estimate a usual temporarily unfit period of about 3 months, at which time a DVT would be of no concern.
The principle with musculoskeletal conditions is that the pilot must be able to (obviously) operate all the controls, access and egress the a/c and in the case of professional pilots must be able to assist passengers during an emergency evacuation.)
Professional pilots assisting passengers would I suppose apply to helping the cabin crew in an Airbus thing ditching in the Hudson.
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