Flight crew to be grounded if confirmed with hypertension:DGCA
Pilots and cabin crew of civil air-carriers with confirmed hypertension would be grounded, unless their blood pressure is certified as satisfactory.
By PTI |
Flight crew to be grounded if confirmed with hypertension: DGCA
MUMBAI: Pilots and cabin crew of civil air-carriers with confirmed hypertension would be grounded, unless their blood pressure is certified as satisfactory.
This is one of the several new set of guidelines on disposal of cases of hypertension in civil crew, announced in an Aeronautical Information Circular (AIC) by the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) recently.
The AIC is applicable to students and private licence holders (SPL and PPL) holding a class II medical certificate as well as for initial issue of licence medical examination.
"In case hypertension is confirmed by 24 hours ambulatory BP monitoring, the pilot will be taken off flying duties and treated by his Authorised Medical Attendant (AMA) till satisfactory control of blood pressure is achieved," the guidelines posted on the DGCA website stated.
In case the flight crew is confirmed to have hypertension, he/she will be placed under observation and declared temporarily unfit for flying duties, the DGCA circular said.
The AIC assumes significance in view of recent reports suggesting that cockpit and cabin crew were working under conditions of stress, leading to fatigue and other related diseases like hypertension.
According to the DGCA guidelines, a blood pressure recording of 140/90 will be accepted as the upper limit of the normal phase.
However, phase V of Korrotkoff sounds (disappearance) will be used to indicate diastolic (low) pressure for purpose of uniformity.
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