Medical certification for pilots of commercial suborbital spaceflights

Aviat Space Environ Med. 2009 Sep;80(9):824-6. doi: 10.3357/asem.2595.2009.

Abstract

The Aerospace Medical Association convened a Working Group on October 31, 2008, with the objective of preparing a position statement on medical certification for pilots of commercial suborbital flights. The discussion concerned two areas: medical standards and the content of the medical examination. The Working Group found that the current medical standards for the Federal Aviation Administration Class I certificate were reasonable for crews flying suborbital profiles. It further recommended that the medical examination include a history and physical examination as well as urinalysis, hemoglobin/hematocrit, hemoglobin A1c, and ECG.

Publication types

  • Guideline

MeSH terms

  • Acceleration
  • Aerospace Medicine*
  • Air Pollution, Indoor
  • Certification / standards*
  • Commerce*
  • Confusion
  • Electrocardiography
  • Environment, Controlled
  • Glycated Hemoglobin / analysis
  • Hematocrit
  • Hemoglobins / analysis
  • Humans
  • Noise
  • Physical Examination / standards
  • Radiation, Ionizing
  • Space Flight*
  • Urinalysis
  • Vibration
  • Weightlessness
  • Work Capacity Evaluation*

Substances

  • Glycated Hemoglobin A
  • Hemoglobins
  • hemoglobin A1c protein, human