Re: Flying Solo W/Diabetes

[Guest guest]

Googled flying+diabetics and found Dare To Dream:

Flying Solo With Diabetes by Cairns. I

incorrectly remembered

Cairns testing hourly. He brings many snacks with him

when flying

and has flown solo round the world. Three nations

including the

US and the UK allow diabetics to have pilots licenses.

BTW I love visiting England, Scotland and Wales and

bicycled round Scotland the summer of '73.

Kind regards, Tim Hopkins

--- Tim snikpoh8@...> wrote:

> Barry,

>

> I think the UK will make special exceptions for

> certain pilots. A speaker at the Taking Control Of

> Your Diabetes 2005 annual meeting in Minneapolis

> told

> how he had his diabetes onset when he was training

> to

> be a pilot for the RAC. He went on the insulin pump

> and tightly controls his BG keeping his A1C at

> 5.0.The

> UK allows him to fly as long as he keeps his BG

> tightly controlled. He tests every hour when flying

> andf is proud of holding world records for diabetics

> who fly.

>

> Kind regards, Tim

>

> --- Barry barry@...> wrote:

>

> > Janet Tabares wrote:

> > > Yes, he's a pilot. He just got his medical

> back.

> > His A1C had gotten

> > > too high, and he lost it for awhile. He used to

> > be in Chapter 12

> > > (Laporte, TX) back in the 1980's.

> >

> > We live very close to a small airport and I would

> > have loved to be able

> > to fly. But in the UK anyone who's diabetic and

> > particularly if they're

> > using insulin is denied a PPL and I would never be

> > allowed to fly solo.

> > So that's that. < >

> > --

> > Take care. Barry UK

> >

>

>

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