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Old 23rd Jul 2013, 17:16
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Red face Obesity

Since obesity is recently classified as a disease., will pilots risk losing their medicals. Especially since we have a lot of overweight pilots.

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Old 25th Jul 2013, 19:12
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Not unless you can operate the controls.
But usually obesity leads to other risk factors which might in long term compromise your health.
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No because disease is not the problem. The problem is the risk of incapacitation or failure to carry out duties properly and safely.
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Since obesity is recently classified as a disease., will pilots risk losing their medicals. Especially since we have a lot of overweight pilots.
Gawd, they'll be clasifying "life" as a disease next
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So if ever my M.O. diagnoses me with the disease of obesity will he prescribe a prescription which consists of a piece of paper with, "eat less" written on it.

You never saw fat people coming out of Belsen - distasteful but true.
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