Aeromedical Factors Discussion

Lesson Objective

Regulatory Requirement

Content

• Aeronautical Decision Making
• DECIDE model
• Hazardous attitudes and their antidotes
• Altitude and Motion sickness
• Prescription and illicit drugs
• Alcohol use
• Hypoxia (Hypoxic, hypemic, stagnant, histotoxic)
• Carbon Monoxide poisoning
• Pre-existing medical conditions that make the pilot unfit to fly
• Pre-existing mental conditions that make the pilot unfit to fly
• Anti-Depression Medication
• Effects of absorbed gasses when scuba diving.

Completion Standards

• Understand and explain all of the topics above
• be able to identify hazardous attitudes by giving examples (macho, anti-authority, invulnerability, impulsivity, resignation)
• be able to use the IM SAFE checklist to determine fitness to fly.

Prerequisite Study

• Glider Flying Handbook, Chapter 1; pages 1-2 through 1-16
• 14 CFR §61.14 Refusal to submit to a drug or alcohol test.
• 14 CFR §61.15 Offenses involving alcohol or drugs.
• 14 CFR §61.16 Refusal to submit to an alcohol test or to furnish test results.
• 14 CFR §61.23 Medical certificates: Requirement and duration.
• 14 CFR §61.53 Prohibition on operations during medical deficiency.
• 14 CFR §91.13 Careless or reckless operation.
• 14 CFR §91.17 Alcohol or drugs.
• 14 CFR §91.211 Supplemental oxygen.
• AIM section 8-1-1 Fitness for Flight.
• AIM section 8-1-2 Effects of Altitude.