Brooks MFS worries

[Purduepete]

I had no problems passing my FC1 physical but am getting nervous about this one. Is there anything I should know to make sure I pass it? Are there common eliminators? Just trying to shed some light on the whole process. Also, have any of you gone through that had PRK done? If so, whats the process like for you at Brooks? Thanks for the input.

 

[Bloud]

Pete, Brooks is just one of those pain in the butt things you have to do. Their is not much you can do but show up. the staff is real cool and make it real laid back.

If you passed your FC1 then you should be fine. They are pretty much double checking a few things, vision ect. They also take a look at your heart to make sure it works okay. About the PRK I am not sure, but I know that you have to stay down there a couple of days extra, but not for sure exactly what all they do. They have a web site and it explains all the testing.

The morning you do a bunch of IQ tests and then in the afternoon you do some vision stuff and they look at your heart. don't sweat it.

Good Luck and go out and enjoy San Antonio

 

[dan_rissacher]

Brooks tests

From what I understand, they don't repeat any of the tests that were part of the FC1 physical. Can anyone confirm that?

All I've heard the do is:
-take a "picture" of your eye... some corneal topography to see if there are abnormalities
-and echocardiogram... a heart ultrasound of sorts to see if you heart is shaped weird or does anything odd
-a non-disqualifying psych test... why they do it? I don't know. someone told me that it set a baseline so that if you ever had a head injury, they could repeat it and see if you have neurological damage

I also read that the failure rate was 2%. Not very high... but just high enough to add another worry.

Anyone have any more info?

 

[av8raaron]

My understanding is the corneal topography test is to confirm you haven't had "unauthorized" eye surgery or used orthokeratotic lenses (hard contacts) to alter your vision. As for the heart ultrasound, they are looking for leaky valves and the like. A friend of mine at Columbus had a valve problem (bicuspid valve where there should have been a tricuspid) that was picked up. They figured that as long as it didn't affect his health he'd be okay to fly.

One more hoop.