I have recently used the Portal to renew my medical certificate. I am astonished at how inept the programmers seem to be and clearly no one in CAA has tried to use the site. Apart rom asking totally illogical questions which, are so ambiguous some seem impossible to answer, the medical questions are are really intrusive and , in my view, have nothing to do with fitness to fly.
An example:
A positive HIV test
Sexually transmitted disease
Asthma, lung disease
Allergy/ asthma/ eczema (their duplication not mine.)
Am I being too paranoid?
The whole setup is really quite poor. I’ve lost thirty days of my medical (for non-UK readers we are able to revalidate a medical up to 45 days before expiry and not lose validity) as I had my medical thirty days before the expiry of my previous medical. My medical validity was shown on the certificate as being one year from the date of my medical, not thirty days after that which it should have. The AME said there was nothing he could do and that he would raise it with the CAA and suggested I do the same. I did that and heard nothing other than an automated acknowledgement.
Fenland_Flyer wrote:
the medical questions are are really intrusive and , in my view, have nothing to do with fitness to fly.
An example:A positive HIV test
Sexually transmitted disease
Asthma, lung disease
Allergy/ asthma/ eczema (their duplication not mine.)
I won’t argue that all these conditions actually make you unfit to fly but some of them certainly could. In any case they are all mentioned in part-MED as potential reasons to deny a medical certificate, so I can’t say that the CAA is wrong in asking.
Yes it’s the Cellma site that you fill the medical details in and access is via the CAA Portal
Will_c wrote:
I did that and heard nothing other than an automated acknowledgement.
Make sure to fill a complaint after your question have been ignored a suitable time. That hurts their stats and that’s the only thing they understand.
Xtophe wrote:
Will_c wrote: I did that and heard nothing other than an automated acknowledgement.Make sure to fill a complaint after your question have been ignored a suitable time. That hurts their stats and that’s the only thing they understand.
@Will_c, call them after you’ve e-mailed them. Quite often this helps.
Fenland_Flyer wrote:
A positive HIV testI’ve once asked my examiner about these things, he said it’s because of psychological impact of for example a HIV infection, so they ask further questions if it makes a difference. Also, this was/is primarily an issue for the flight attendants, apparently they require a medical, too.
Sexually transmitted disease
Asthma, lung disease
Allergy/ asthma/ eczema
Concerning Asthma or lung diseases, that could create issues if you fly high – but then, considering what smoking does to your oxygen saturation, that can’t be an issue by itself, they will probably ask more questions (or require you to go to more specialists).
I’ve learned to not mention anything beyond the bleeding obvious and I have learned to get the examination done at the end of the season, so if any issues arise, they can be resolved in winter. YMMV.
Don’t worry, the CAA is looking for a Talent Spotter to fix it!
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^^^ you couldn’t make it up….
