Only flight surgeons are entitled to accomplish the medical investigation necessary for the acquisition and receipt of the licenses of pilots and air traffic control personnel and to confirm the medical flier fitness (Flugtauglichkeitszeugnis/Medical) for the admission authority. At large airlines and with the military besides flight surgeons for the medical treatment are employed by aviation personnel.

The activity as a flight surgeon requires knowledge of the special conditions, the human organism is exposed to which during the flight, in particular Flugphysiologie.Die of training further courses for flight surgeons takes place at Lufthansa and the German Federal Armed Forces. The costs are substantial. Yet flier-medical Untersuchungsstelle.Die does not entitle the execution of these courses of a permission effected via the land authorities b.z.w the Federal Office of Aviation to the line

The training as the aeromedical expert (flight surgeon) is in "§ 24e air traffic permission order (LuftVZO) and in the first to LuftVZO (1. Data processing LuftVZO). regulated.

Related links

• http://www.teamflugmedizin.de/
• http://www.fliegerarztverband.de/ - German flight surgeon federation registered association.

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