First CLASS MEDICAL QUSTIONS

[Hamil000]

Whirlygig vbmenu_register("postmenu_2657745", true);

Yeah English is my third 3rd language

1st LUGANDA
2nd ARABIC
3rd ENGLISH

[mad_jock]

I have had both tests the pin and the puffer. The pin twice due to me falling off my bike pissed in Glen Esk and my mum going mental and making me go to hospital and the RAF bloke.

You have to sit here with your face rammed into what looks like a medival torture device. Where apon they squirts the solution, which stings like hell and you instantly can't see anything due to the amount of stuff coming out your eye. Then they proceed to move the probe in and very slowly push a bunt probe into the front of your eye. This takes about a minute, it feels like 30mins. You have to keep your eye open and your head bang up against the head rest or they will have to do it again. You can imagne how hard it is to keep your eye open when someone is slowly shoving what looks like a bic pen into your eye.

It doesn't hurt its just very very uncomfy and you really can't drive afterwards.

Thankfully after mine I was escorted to a dark room by a very attractive (well she was before the test) Irish nurse to look at flashy lights for the next hour, which involved lots of blinking which was just what I needed.

[Happy Wanderer]

Yep, 3 days was the turnaround time, and as far as I'm aware my GP wasn't involved. Was informed at the Class 1 that I had a very high cholesterol level which came like a bolt out the blue. Doesn't seem to affect the flying tho

I personally didn't find the Class 1 anywhere near the ordeal I thought it would be - in fact I really quite enjoyed it. Felt a bit like being on a conveyor belt at times, but very professional nonetheless.

I probably did wonder how intrusive' the medical was going to be, but no worries at all. If anyone (male) is going down to Gatwick thinking they'll be on the receiving end of the rubber glove treatment . . . . you won't be.

HW

[femaleWannabe]

[quote=Whirlygig]Yes, we have our breasts examined for lumps etc./quote]

Phew is that all?! I was thinking they'd be using the rubber glove "elsewhere"

Do ladies get to keep all underwear intact or is it strip to the waist for us too?

[VFR-Seek and Destroy]

Leezyjet -

Then she poilitely asks you to pull down your underwear

I think i'll be asking for a refund. The doctor never said that to me.

[Whirlygig]

For the ladies amongst us :-

Yes, strip to the waist with no bra, pants remain on throughout! However, ladies get a big. baggy T-shirt to wear and THEN the white, fluffy dressing gown which is made for a loosehead prop!

Apparently, many women complained that they felt a little under-dressed when walking around the medical centre with JUST the dressing gown and blokes also walking around.

However, I found the building so hot that when one nurse told me that that was the only reason for T-Shirt AND dressing gown - off came the dressing gown! Trousers were still on! OK, so I walked around in a baggy T-shirt and no bra - after all I doubt very much whether I would see any of the other guys again and even if I did, they wouldn't recognise me with my clothes on!

When the doctor does the breast examination, there will be a female nurse present and bless, my chap was very discreet.

Cheers

Whirls

[Leezyjet]

Originally Posted by BEagle

"I just wore my jeans and a pair of trainers, and a sweatshirt - basically smart casual."
Smart casual?
Currently, despite job applicants having all their qualifications - some even have type ratings - airline recruiters reckon that around 50% of fATPL holders are unemployable. Why? It's because they are simply not the sort of people the airlines wish to have sitting in their cockpits.

BEagle,


What has that got to do with wearing jeans and trainers to a medical ?. The clothes I wore to the medical were smart, but as I said casual. I wasn't going for an interview so did not feel the need to dress up in the whistle.

I already said in the post that it is advisable to wear something you can run in - thats what I was told prior to going, so I wore trainers. The one (and only) guy who was fully suited and booted had to go run around the car park for 20 mins on a frosty/icy morning in a suit and a pair of shoes - hardly advisable now is it.

There were people there that were just in there scruffy clothes they would wear around the house. Didn't stop them getting a medical THEY were paying for.

What you wear to the CAA medical centre has absolutely zero influence on whether you can fly an a/c or not. It's the results of the medical itself that counts.

[Wazzoo]

I'm not sure what all this stuff about dressing gowns and feeling your nads is.

I went just over a month ago and never had to wear a dressing gown. I was in my own clothes throughout. Had to take my shirt off for the ECG and then for the doctors exam I stripped down to underwear. But even then that didn't come off. He just felt my lower abdomen and asked me to do the cough thing. No feeling anywhere else. As I say, for the rest of it I was in my own clothes.

Not sure what happened with Leezyjet....and I had a bloke do the exam (was the lady just taking advantage? )

[Leezyjet]

Not sure what happened with Leezyjet....and I had a bloke do the exam (was the lady just taking advantage? )

Yep we all got the full on nad feelage from the woman.

One other thing I noticed, the windows were not blacked out either and the room was on the ground floor. The blinds were also tilted away from the window, in towards the room meaning anyone outside could look in rather than being tilted the other way around towards the glass so you can see out but people cannot see in.

[Hawk]

This thread is not about grammar or spelling. English is not necessarily the first language of many members of PPRuNe. We will not tolerate arrogant personal attacks directed at those who come here with a genuine and legitimate medical issue.
Thank you
H.