CPL/IR with JAA Class One Medical BUT

[Mouse Bound]

I have a CPL/IR with JAA Class One Medical BUT I had an episode of multiple sclerosis for a two week period 8 years ago.

The CAA are happy to issue a Class One Certificate but I need some guidance as to what view a potential airline employer would take before I embark on ATPL course.

Can any one help?

[FlyingForFun]

Would you need to tell a potential employer?

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[QDMQDMQDM]

<<multiple sclerosis
noun a chronic progressive disease of the central nervous system characterized by loss of some of the myelin sheath surrounding certain nerve fibres and resulting in speech and visual disorders, tremor, muscular incoordination, partial paralysis, etc.
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Look anywhere and you will find that MS is generally defined as a chronic, progressive disease. At the very least, the diagnosis requires a number of neurological events over a protracted period. You could not have had MS 'for a 2 week period' 8 years ago. You may have had a discrete episode of demyelination, but with no recurrence (and I am presuming the CAA requested an MRI scan which must have been normal) then you do not have MS.

As so often seems to be the case on this forum, it is worth getting the diagnosis reviewed with an aviation career in the balance being uppermost in the mind of the specialist doing the reviewing.

QDM

[Flyin'Dutch']

QDM,

Although it is not possible to come up with a single positive diagnostic test to determine whether a patient does or doesn't have MS, in the majority of presenting patients, given the findings at examination and the combination of investigations being indicative of MS, a diagnosis can be made with a good degree of reliability.

And it is not all that uncommon to have long periods of remission either.

On the other hand trying to establish that someone has not had a mild form of MS with no further signs and symptoms currently may end up like looking for the proverbial in a haystack.

FD

[BoeingMEL]

I was diagnosed with relapsing remitting MS in Feb 1997 and was fortunately able to return to flying duties for almost 2 years... subject to many conditions. CAA Medical Dept at the Belgrano (Dr Paul Collins-Howgill) was brilliant and did everything posssible to get me back flying...within the regs of course. Now walking with difficulty, losing balance, eyesight probs, some incontinence, palsy (shaking of lims) and spasticity too. Life can be so hard. May even lose the house soon... life can be so cruel. 2 weeks MS some years ago? I dont think so!! Regards and fondest love and best wishes to all who have taken over the skies I so desperately miss. BM

[Snoopee]

Mouse Bound,
Want to back you up against all the criticism! My dad had episode of MS for a month and then didnt have another relapse for 10 years, now he has progressive MS and is wheelchair bound. Everyone else just because your experience of MS isnt the same as someone elses dont dismiss what they say.

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FD,

MRI has changed the picture a lot. If you've had a single suspicious episode some years before and have a normal MRI now, I'd say the diagnosis was in doubt. If you've had a suspicious episode and now have an abnormal MRI, then that is more suggestive.

It is a condition where the diagnosis can be very, very easy or very, very difficult to make. Some people will fall into a grey area for a while.

QDM