Health PPL questions

What are the types of medicals

1st class, 2nd class, 3rd class, basic med

What is the first class medical?

Required if conducting a flight requiring an Airline Transport Pilot certificate for PIC privileges

40 or older expires every 6 months

Under 40 expires every 12 months

What is the 2nd class medical?

Required for commercial pilots

Expires every 12 months regardless of age

What is the 3rd class medical?

Required for all other pilot certifications

40 and older expires every 24 months

Under 40 expires every 60 months

What is basicmed?

Possess a US drivers license, have held a medical after July 14th, 2006

Get an exam done

Complete the basicmed course and save the medical cert in your logbook

Cannot carry more than 7 occupants

Has a maximum certified takeoff weight of not more than 12,500 pounds

Carries no more than 6 passengers

Operates under VFR or IFR in the US at or below 18,000 feet MSL not exceeding 250 knots

Cannot fly for compensation or hire

Private pilots, CFI’s, and pilot examiners can use BasicMed.

What is hypoxia?

A lack of oxygen to the brain

Hypoxic hypoxia

Insufficient oxygen available to the body

Hypemic hypoxia

Reduction of the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood

Stagnant hypoxia

Blood isn’t flowing to all parts of the body

Hystotoxic hypoxia

The cells can’t absorb the available oxygen in the blood. Alcohol and drugs can cause this type

What are some symptoms of hypoxia

Headache, dizziness, lightheadedness blue lips or fingertips, euphoria, fatigue, and numbness in the body

What is hyperventilation?

Having an excessive breathing rate which leads to an abnormal loss of carbon dioxide

What is spatial disorientation?

Inversion

Coriolis

Elevator

False horizon

Leans

Autokenesis

Graveyard spiral

Somatogravic

Describe the inversion effect

A quick change from climb to level flight

Describe the coriolis effect

A quick head movement during a constant rate turn

Describe the elevator effect

Updraft or downdraft causing extreme acceleration

Describe the false horizon effect

Fixating on something you think is the horizon but isn’t

Describe the leans effect

Sudden return to straight flight

Describe the autokenesis effect

Staring at a light so long it looks like it's moving

Describe the graveyard spiral effect

Wrongly sensed spin in the opposite direction

What is the somatogravic effect

Rapid acceleration pushing the pilot back giving a nose up sensation