{"id":38,"date":"2018-09-28T09:37:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T09:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2025-02-24T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:38:56","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/aviation-medicals\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Malcolm Sim BSc (Hons), MBChB, MD, FRCP, FRCA, FFICM, EDIC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia working at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where I lead the Critical Care research.<\/p>\n<p>I learned to fly at Prestwick Flight Centre in a Cessna 152. I still very much enjoy taking to the skies in a Piper Cherokee Archer, although we are in the process of transitioning to an Arrow. I have my night rating and am working towards acquiring the IR(R). I was once lucky enough to have a trial flying a Jet Provost, which is certainly the fastest aircraft I have ever piloted!<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 I completed a course in Aviation Medicine at King\u2019s College London and subsequent training required by the CAA and am now an examiner for Class II and cabin crew medicals. I am aiming to add Class I privileges later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Malcolm Sim BSc (Hons), MBChB, MD, FRCP, FRCA, FFICM, EDIC I am a Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia working at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where I lead the Critical Care research. I learned to fly at Prestwick Flight Centre in a Cessna 152. I still very much enjoy taking to&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/aviation-medicals\/about-me\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/1518"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilotmedicalsscotland.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}