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https://www.caa.co.uk/uploadedFiles/...02018-2019.pdf


Just seen this. What are all your thoughts? Seems steep for the medical related ones!

Professor Plum

I don't personally think the medical related ones are steep.

For both - the defendants went a significant number of years without disclosing medical information which would have certainly been of interest to the AME.

In one instance, someone went through four class 2 medical examinations without disclosing heart surgery - (!!!) and flew over 100 hrs. What if he'd become incapacitated and killed his passengers an/or people on the ground?

In another - an 8 year undisclosed history of depression / medication for it, in relation to a class 1 medical. Parallels with German wings crash??

I get someone may "forget" to disclose something - but repeated forgetting of medical information which will clearly be of interest to an AME I find very hard to justify.

Just my two cents!

VariablePitchP

Serves as a proper deterrent, £50 fine and a telling off is not enough to stop someone trying to lie in order to get a medical.

Also should hopefully make the other numpties think twice before flying like an idiot.

NorvernSuvna

Good post, I suppose those fines for the medical offences are there for a reason, perhaps to discourage pilots from denying their true situation ? The geyser having joy rides within the Luton TMA should have had his licence revoked IMHO !

Herod

Couldn't agree more. I lost my licence through a nervous breakdown, which resulted in having to take anti-depressants. The then CAA Medical Branch outlined the process to get the licence back. It would have been quite a long (and expensive) process to regain and, since I was only two years to pension, I gave it a miss. Flying under that sort of medication, or worse, flying with that condition and no medication, is dangerous.

Professor Plum

Herod - It's good to know that there's a process by which you can get a medical back in those circumstances.


Hope you're safe and well now.

SanHor

Why with full names? Little bit of privacy?

Nightstop

Declaring any medical condition to your AME is not only a legal requirement but can actually be of benefit to yourself. In my case, at age 42 I had a heart attack. Two NHS Consultants advised that invasive surgery was unnecessary (for the time being) and wouldn’t approve it for socio-economic reasons alone i.e. return to work, as an Airline Pilot. The CAA Medical Branch however were more helpful and referred me to Dr Webb Peploe (Consultant Cardiologist to the CAA, at the time). Dr Webb Peploe disagreed with the NHS and following angiograms etc referred me to Mr Chris Young for open heart surgery. As a result, for 23 years thereafter I have successfully passed every CAA medical test requirement and am about to retire in good health (albeit with some internal cardiac plumbing adjustments). Thank you CAA, without whom I may not have completed my career or indeed been here today!

Herod

Professor Plum. Yes, thank you; safe and well. As the CAA doctor said "We're not slamming the door; we're closing it gently". There are ways back from lots of things; for me it was a case of a year or so, then obviously lapsed ratings etc, so not economically worth it. However, for someone younger, yes.

Captain-Random

Google some of the same same you’ll see a history of reckless behaviour/ illegal operations

Why they still have licences is beyond me. $$$$

VariablePitchP

No difference with people charged with ‘normal’ crimes.

If you don’t want to be publicly named then don’t commit criminal behaviour, very simple. That’s before you think of it as another deterrent.

megan

Depending on the jurisdiction under which you operate, some authorities permit flying while taking anti-depressants, even at the ATPL level, Oz is one. Of course it will be on a case by case basis.

29_Grass

A celebrity or two on there, at least they're not up before the beak for hooky charter (this time)