Becoming a pilot....... ( Raf and maybe flying a boeing later on )

The CAA can inform you, but for most things you need to speak to an aviation medicine doctor.

A note doesn't cut it. Each case is different, but something as serious as ADD; mild case or otherwise; precludes you from flying. Same with asthma, for example. Doesn't matter if it was a tiny, mild case 10 years ago, it still means that you're unable to be a pilot.

i'm not taking any of it, dont listen to him flyer, he's just speaking gobble dee gook

Just had a look at a website about ADD

'often makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work, or other activities' - I'd rather not have a pilot who makes careless mistakes

'often becomes easily distracted by irrelevant sights, sounds and extraneous stimuli' - Flew over London at night whilst descending into Heathrow. It was really pretty. I'd prefer a pilot who concentrated on the bit of tarmac he was supposed to place the aircraft on, rather than the sights of London.

'often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly' - So if air traffic control or TCAS tells you driectly to do something to avoid a collision, what do you think the passengers and crew of both aircraft would prefer you to do?

'often avoids tasks that require sustained mental effort' - flying an aircraft does require a sustained mental effort. You say its all computers that fly it. Programming it in the first place requires a sustained mental effort. landing any plane requires a sustained mental effort, even with the auto pilot landing it.

'often is forgetful in daily activities' - Imagine forgetting to lower the undercarrige. It actually will warn you, but other symptoms suggest you would ignore the warning.

Do you seriously believe that someone with ADD should be let loose with an aircraft and its 500 passengers? even if you only suffered it as a kid and are no longer troubled by it, its only got to come back once for you to be responsible for the death of 500 people.

You idiot...... didn't he say he got put on it for fighting? i also looked it up briefly and there are many forms of it........ in america it seems as though it is strife!

people get put on it for different reasons!!!!!!!!!!!

If you actually take a look at this topic, you hopefully will see that everyone believes that you are the idiot.

he/you has/have said many things which subsequently have changed the longer and longer this topic gets.

If you want to fly in an aircraft where the pilot has ADD, be my guest. By the way. looking at your replies, i get a feeling for some reason, you will feature on crime watch one day.

crime watch? LOOOOOL what you on about mate? alls im saying is that he could become a pilot!


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i've never been involved in the police, it's not my game.......

I'm not saying he can't be a pilot. He probably could become one. However he won't become a pilot of a commerical aircraft.

you don't know that

Well you may think that. However i had a gliding instructor medical at an RAF base in Wiltshire, and the doctor who examined me until recently carried out class 1 medicals. (He is a civilian doctor working for the RAF or something or other). Whilst having the medical i thought about this topic so i asked him about flying and ADD. His reply was that he would never have passed someone for a class 1 medical who suffered from or had a history of ADD.

Flyer should just pay a lot of money to be told the same. That way this arguement will stop.

flyer, don't listen to him, you can get a doctor to give you a note explaining the reasoning

like i said, ive heard different

Who is this person you have heard different from?

Of course you are right. I'll go and tell the doctor who specialises in aviation medicals that infact he is wrong cos some person reckons he has heard different.

Why should he not listen? He will need a class 1 medical to do what he wants so he is going to have to pay a lot of money to get one.

he has a mild case, and there are always exemptions

If there are always exemptions to flying medicals, why did my friend fail his then? His eye sight very slightly not 20/20 and so he was told he would never be an RAF pilot. He actually did very well in his aptitude tests and was told he did very well in his interview. it was after the interview, he found out he had failed the medical.

So if the doctor said he would never ever pass someone for a class 1 medical with ADD, how can there be an exception?

maybe your friend just sucks ass? maybe if they'd train flyer up, he'd own you all in flying!! im not talking about raf either

Right of course. My friend failed because of his eyesight so he must suck ass. How old are you?

What do you mean he would own us all? Please explain.

he just sucks..... i bet i could own the interview

i'm 18.

Flyer is going to fail the medical. Does that mean he sucks?

I doubt very much you would even get to OASC.

i definitely have the skill to become a pilot!

Of course you do. How stupid of me to think otherwise. I suppose you have the skill to do any job as well.