Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has announced that qualified pilots and air traffic controllers with diabetes treated with insulin and other medications can carry out full operation duties including flying commercial aircraft.
Licensed pilots and air traffic controllers, who have diabetes, will need to demonstrate good overall control of their condition before gaining medical qualifications to fly. Pilots with diabetes have already been able to fly recreationally since 2002, but the new policy allows full private flying privileges once medical requirements are met.
This announcement coincides with the UK Diabetes Formation Flight, which is to be led by Douglas Cairns on Saturday 1 September. The flight will see six pilots with insulin-treated diabetes set off from Nottingham Airport and aim to set a new national formation speed record from Derby to Southampton.
For almost two hours, the pilots will fly six aircraft along a flightpath in the form of a 'D', passing over six villages and towns whose first letters will sequentially spell the word 'diabetes', before finally landing at Goodwood (Chichester) Airport.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us...-diabetes-allowed-to-fly-commercial-aircraft/
Licensed pilots and air traffic controllers, who have diabetes, will need to demonstrate good overall control of their condition before gaining medical qualifications to fly. Pilots with diabetes have already been able to fly recreationally since 2002, but the new policy allows full private flying privileges once medical requirements are met.
This announcement coincides with the UK Diabetes Formation Flight, which is to be led by Douglas Cairns on Saturday 1 September. The flight will see six pilots with insulin-treated diabetes set off from Nottingham Airport and aim to set a new national formation speed record from Derby to Southampton.
For almost two hours, the pilots will fly six aircraft along a flightpath in the form of a 'D', passing over six villages and towns whose first letters will sequentially spell the word 'diabetes', before finally landing at Goodwood (Chichester) Airport.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us...-diabetes-allowed-to-fly-commercial-aircraft/