One overview suggests significant side effects for about 5% of users, but significant excess weight has much bigger side effects…
On a related matter: What do you guys think of wegovy and it’s ilk for overweight pilots? Especially considering long term health issues and short term implications on flying?
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But they DO accept one for hearing.
They absolutely do not. How do I know? Had my audiogram yesterday.
The functional hearing test is additional to the audiogram if the audiogram is failed.
Yes another topic but I don’t think your AME will want to see this 
Maybe for the NPPL or some such…
Tango wrote:
Can you also bring reports of self-assessed visual acuity? Asking for a friend
:) Nope! But they DO accept one for hearing.
On a serious note – if your hearing is on threshold of pass/fail for your audiogram, bringing with you the results of “functional hearing tests” might help.
That hearing test a very short flight with a CFI and fairly basic, but I think that is topic for a different thread. :)
Good Q but we don’t have a choice – unless you go on the UK PMD (or the French UL medical) but then you cannot fly outside your own country. UK PMD+PPL holders can fly to France in an amateur built annex 1. The PMD now covers the IMCR but for European travel, or an IR, you need the Class 2.
FWIW, I spoke to one AME the other day about the PMD and the reaction was as unhappy as I could imagine that AME to produce. So it is an amazing thing that the UK CAA did something so visionary. I pay £300 for my UK medical now, which is about 1hr, and this is no doubt because the PMD has eliminated > 50% of UK PPL business.
Actually I wonder if the CAA knew about a possible legal action, like Pape who got an ATPL but limited to Australia. Let’s face it – the Class 2 could never be defended on pilot incapacitation statistics.
Anyway, my post about BP was intended to help people who want the Class 1 or Class 2. I bet you that if you eat the “average food” then that list will knock 30/30 off your BP reading. And IME most AMEs measure BP incorrectly; I’ve had the test right on walking through the door, after driving for 2hrs.
most UK AMEs allow you to bring your own BP readings made at home
Can you also bring reports of self-assessed visual acuity? Asking for a friend 
172driver wrote:
So what’s the point of an AME then?
I think many pilots around the world are asking the very same question…
(in a cranky voice) “Many, many moons ago no one understood the human health and it interacts with flying and so the first AMEs were introduced…” :)
So what’s the point of an AME then?
Not heard of that before…
Peter, most UK AMEs allow you to bring your own BP readings made at home (for a PPL, not CPL), so you could do it that way – made a three measurements at a time over a course of a few days and write those numbers on a paper. :)
