What to bring and what to expect at the medical

ALL MEDICALS

  1. Passport
  2. Spectacle and contact lens wearers – please bring a reasonably up-to-date prescription
  3. Contact lens wearers – please bring contact lens cases with storage solutions as well as backup spectacles so we can check your unaided, contact lens and spectacle vision
  4. Please drink plenty of water and arrive with a full bladder so you can do the urine test
  5. Normally, payment is made online to book the medical. If we have agreed other means of payment then please make sure you bring this on the day.

UK CAA MEDICAL

  1. For re-validation or renewal, please bring your previous medical certificate and CAA reference number.
  2. Please bring printed confirmation of Cellma payment, in case the Cellma system is down at the time of your medical.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A common reason for having a limitation applied to a medical is red/green colour blindness. Essentially you are restricted to daytime flying unless you pass advance colour vision testing.

You may want more information about colour vision and you should check the CAA’s most up-to-date guidance on their websites.

Many pilots are curious about ECGs. There’s quite a lot to get through at your appointment so we won’t have time to delve into all the electrophysiology. So here’s an interesting article on ECGs