Medical fails may climb

[FR8mastr]

Good news

In the meantime, all our fatty pilots should get to work on getting in shape. It might be coming in time. From what I hear, it'll happen eventually but pilots who've been letting themselves go only have about a year to get squared away.
AMMV

You do understand that after the "fatty's" get diagnosed with SA they will be coming after you too.

 

[Jetjockey]

Remember that reading comprehension is a skill not everyone can master.

 

[slaquer5]

Good news

In the meantime, all our fatty pilots should get to work on getting in shape. It might be coming in time. From what I hear, it'll happen eventually but pilots who've been letting themselves go only have about a year to get squared away.
AMMV

Dude

Please lay off advice like this. The work out rooms are only so big.


I do not like a crowded work out room.





Just like when age 65 got passed ,all the old farts decided they needed to start working out . Althought that did not last long .


If you want to put the word our about anything , Let the Texas Tech girls know there is free beer at our hotel in LBB.

 

[waveflyer]

That's a great idea!!

And you're right-
Most people do what they're gonna do.

But!

If one has plenty of notice and knows what's expected and what is an issue and doesn't do what they need to do??

... Sorry...

 

[Bringupthebird]

Overweight pilots is a completely separate issue. Unless the FAA wants to pass a maximum weight restriction, then pilots should choose to lose weight for their own benefit. The issue is a rogue FAA Flight Surgeon who chose to bypass the rulemaking procedures in order to advance his personal agenda. We are a nation of laws, not men.

If the FAA wanted to encourage pilots to seek treatment for OSA, they could advise the local AMEs to ask all pilots about their general sleep quality and offer prescriptions for various devices (not CPAP, but smaller oral or nasal devices) and ask them to report back on how it affects them and allow the pilots to retain their medicals while seeking follow-up with sleep specialists and provide the necessary Special Issuance as needed.

The health risks associated with sleep apnea are also caused by other things such as poor schedules which contributes to poor sleep patterns even when home. To ignore this and treat CPAP therapy as the silver bullet is ignorant and dangerous.

 

[Juniority]

Just a personal observation here, but it seems that people (fat pilots) are pretty concerned about this issue. I'm a 23 on the BMI and lately I keep getting questioned by the "big guys" about how I stay slim. The conversations tend to be short because apparently "exercise" isn't the answer they want to here.

 

[pilotyip]

Just a personal observation here, but it seems that people (fat pilots) are pretty concerned about this issue. I'm a 23 on the BMI and lately I keep getting questioned by the "big guys" about how I stay slim. The conversations tend to be short because apparently "exercise" isn't the answer they want to here.

exercise alone does not guarentee that you will remain a BMI 23. It is a combination of diet and exercise. i.e. very simple formula if calories in = calories burned then weight is stable.

 

[Juniority]

exercise alone does not guarentee that you will remain a BMI 23. It is a combination of diet and exercise. i.e. very simple formula if calories in = calories burned then weight is stable.

See? That's what I was talking about. Why does it always go this way? Mr. Big-Fatty-Knowitall always ends up giving me (the 23 BMI guy) a lecture on how to stay thin. Conversation over.

 

[pilotyip]

See? That's what I was talking about. Why does it always go this way? Mr. Big-Fatty-Knowitall always ends up giving me (the 23 BMI guy) a lecture on how to stay thin. Conversation over.

you are funny, not knowing thing about me you are able to throw darts. Now I will admit according to the BMI charts I am only .5 away from being overweight, but that is not much more than your two points away from the stupid BMI of 25 defining overweight. Was there something illogical about my post calories in and calories out determine weigh? Take my wife she was on a 5,000 calories a day diet, she gained no weight because of her exercise regime. But after she set her world record she did not exercise so much and had to cut back on her diet to maintain weight. So it is a combination of exercise and calorie intake that maintains a given weight.

BTW Seeing you come from a USAF background I understand you taking input from someone who had been in the Navy

 

[PBRstreetgang]

"exercise" isn't the answer they want to here.

That's because they haven't about meth, BMI of -17 and being 6'3" and a solid 135lbs means total health!