Im new, Im diabetic and Im a pilot :-)

[Diabetic Pilot]

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all well! Ive recently been speaking to another member on here who has been posting about learning to fly with diabetes and I decided to join to meet new people and also help in my specialist area of aviation and diabetes!

A little about myself, im 19, studying aerospace technology and management at the university of hertfordshire, diagnosed with type1 2 months before my 18th birthday. I was learning to fly light aircraft at the time in order to become an airline pilot which is my childhood and lifes dream! I couldnt let this happen so I started campaigning and accidently met the other catalyist to now what has become Pilots With Diabetes. We are a group that helps diabetics follow the path to hold a recreational pilots license and also a group thats actively meeting up and working on a campaign to create diabetic airline pilots by abolising the unfair blanket ban on all type 1's and getting it replaced with individual medical assements and monitoring , based on the very sucessful system in canada.

thats about me done!

Look forward to talking you all!

 

[wendyh]

Welcome!

Wendy

 

[grahams mum]

hi and good luck with the campaign

 

[bev]

Hi, good for you for sticking with it and making your life long dreams come true! Well done. Bev

 

[Diabetic Pilot]

thanks everyone, if you come across anyone with aviation dreams etc point them in my direction please 🙂

 

[vic hill]

pump control

well
just have to say to all you pilots
what hero that guy and his team ; was at new york landed that plane in the river just as if it was on a runway . and then handed a shirt to a guy very cold brillant brillant
just had to say that !!!!
now 2/3 years ago an article was in the east anglian daily times how a pilot got his licence back after very good control on an insulin pump
you may send them a note to see if they have that in their archives ??

good luck good control

vic hill

 

[diagonall]

Hello nice of you to drop in Welcome to the forum 🙂

 

[Diabetic Pilot]

Yeah Id agree, textbook landing on that water, wings level, nose up and tail first!
Do you roughly recall a name of this chap

Many thanks

Karl

 

[diagonall]

Yeah Id agree, textbook landing on that water, wings level, nose up and tail first!
Do you roughly recall a name of this chap

Many thanks

Karl

Chesley B 'Sully' Sullenberger III

 

[bev]

Yeah Id agree, textbook landing on that water, wings level, nose up and tail first!
Do you roughly recall a name of this chap

Many thanks

Karl

Hi i think its Douglas Cairns, i just googled it and there were a few, but mainly canadian, this chap was british. Hope that helps.Bev

 

[Diabetic Pilot]

thanks

Thanks, I thought it would be, Douglas is now a close friend of mine (thanks to Diabetes 🙂 )working on the PWD front. We are also working a project this summer that involves aviation and raising money for the JDRF and some towards children with diabetes =) not to the scale of his world flight he did a few years back but still something amazing nether the less! http://www.diabetesworldflight.com/

Karl

 

[bev]

Well i wish you lots of luck with your fundraising! You will have to let us know when and where and maybe some of us could come and cheer you on! Bev

 

[Diabetic Pilot]

Thankyou very much. Its going to be in the USA so might be a bit far! lol We will have realtime satelite tracking to our aircraft viewable on a google earth map online at the special website when its setup. Here we should also take online donations!! I will get plenty of videos and pics etc.

 

[bev]

Thankyou very much. Its going to be in the USA so might be a bit far! lol We will have realtime satelite tracking to our aircraft viewable on a google earth map online at the special website when its setup. Here we should also take online donations!! I will get plenty of videos and pics etc.

He he! Yes its a bit far but let us know when you have set up the website! Bev

 

[AskGeeves]

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all well! Ive recently been speaking to another member on here who has been posting about learning to fly with diabetes and I decided to join to meet new people and also help in my specialist area of aviation and diabetes!

A little about myself, im 19, studying aerospace technology and management at the university of hertfordshire, diagnosed with type1 2 months before my 18th birthday. I was learning to fly light aircraft at the time in order to become an airline pilot which is my childhood and lifes dream! I couldnt let this happen so I started campaigning and accidently met the other catalyist to now what has become Pilots With Diabetes. We are a group that helps diabetics follow the path to hold a recreational pilots license and also a group thats actively meeting up and working on a campaign to create diabetic airline pilots by abolising the unfair blanket ban on all type 1's and getting it replaced with individual medical assements and monitoring , based on the very sucessful system in canada.

thats about me done!

Look forward to talking you all!

I am currently attempting to become a commercial pilot and I'm looking for all the help I can get with regards to obtaining Medical's with type 1, currently being vetted for a Class 2 in order to attempt a Class 1 having already taken the initial assessment to find out that I'm perfectly fine except the diabetes.

 

[grovesy]

Welcome.

 

[Northerner]

I am currently attempting to become a commercial pilot and I'm looking for all the help I can get with regards to obtaining Medical's with type 1, currently being vetted for a Class 2 in order to attempt a Class 1 having already taken the initial assessment to find out that I'm perfectly fine except the diabetes.

Hi @AskGeeves, welcome to the forum 🙂 I'd suggest looking at the Flying with Diabetes website, if you aren't already aware of it 🙂