Medical Evaluation Centre for civilian pilots soon

Bangalore: Emphasising the need for aviation medicine to be expanded to cover civil aviation needs, Chief of the Air Staff F.H. Major on Wednesday said a new Medical Evaluation Centre was being set up at the Air India complex in Mumbai for commercial pilots.
To be headed by an Indian Air Force (IAF) person, the centre will give pilots one more facility to complete their crucial fitness test. Earlier, civilian pilots had to depend only on the Institute of Aviation Medicine (IAM) in Bangalore and similar centres in Delhi and Jorhat in Assam for their medical evaluation.
The Air Chief was in the city to inaugurate the 47th annual conference of the Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine.
Deccan Executive Chairman G.R. Gopinath, in his keynote address, said the problems of alienation in the country could be best addressed through better air connectivity.
On the significance of air safety and aviation medicine in the civil aviation sector, Capt. Gopinath reiterated the need for more centres for aircrew fitness evaluation.
01/11/07 The Hindu

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Categories: General Aviation Nov 2007, Safety Nov 2007