CORONA The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal - allegedly due to Covid vaccine

alchemike

Veteran Member

The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal. We should be concerned. Very concerned.​

After the vaccine rolled out, the FAA secretly widened the EKG parameter range for pilots so they wouldn't be grounded. It looks like the vax gave at least 50M Americans heart damage.​


Steve Kirsch

8 hr ago

How airlines plan to create new generation of pilots at time of crisis

The FAA just telegraphed the fact that a substantial number of airline pilots have had serious heart damage from the COVID vaccine by widening the ECG parameters for pilots.

In the October 2022 version of the FAA Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners, the FAA quietly widened the EKG parameters beyond the normal range (from a PR max of .2 to unlimited). And they didn’t widen the range by a little. They widened it by a lot. It was done after the vaccine rollout.

This is extraordinary. They did it hoping nobody would notice. It worked for a while. Nobody caught it.
But you can’t hide these things for long.

This is a tacit admission from the US government that the COVID vaccine has damaged the hearts of our pilots. Not just a few pilots. A lot of pilots and a lot of damage.

The cardiac harm of course is not limited to pilots.

My best guess right now is that over 50M Americans sustained some amount of heart damage from the shot.
That’s a lot of people who will be very upset when they realize the vaccine they took to reduce their chance of dying from COVID actually worked in reverse making it:
  1. More likely that people will get COVID
  2. Be hospitalized from COVID and other diseases
  3. Die from COVID (and other diseases)
  4. You also have an excellent chance of getting a lifetime of heart damage for no extra charge.
But don’t worry; you can’t sue them. They fixed the law so none of them aren’t liable (the doctors, the drug companies, the government). After all, you took the vaccine of your own free will. It’s not like you were forced (or coerced) to take it or anything like that! And there were plenty of people warning you not to take the shots (even though they censored most of them).

In this article, I will explain the evidence and thinking behind all my claims.
As I learn more, I will refine the estimate.

Introduction​

On October 24, 2022, the FAA quietly, without any announcement at all, widened the EKG requirements necessary for pilots to be able to fly.

The PR (a measure of heart function) used to be in the range of .12 to .2.
It is now: .12 to .3 and potentially even higher.

This is a very wide range; it accommodates people who have cardiac injury. Cardiologist Thomas Levy is appalled at this change:



Why did they make the change?​

Why would they do that?
I’ll take an educated guess as to why they did that. I believe it is because they knew if they kept the original range, too many pilots would have to be grounded. That would be extremely problematic; commercial aviation in the US would be severely disrupted.
And why did they do that quietly without notifying the public or the mainstream media?

I’m pretty sure they won’t tell me, so I’ll speculate: it’s because they didn’t want anyone to know.

In other words, the COVID vaccine has seriously injured a lot of pilots and the FAA knows it and said nothing because that would tip off the country that the vaccines are unsafe. And you aren’t allowed to do that.

Why we sure it was the vaccine that did it​

There are several clues that are consistent with “it was the vaccine and not COVID”:
  1. They were quiet about it. If it was COVID, you can be public. But the vaccine is supposed to be safe.
  1. The timing. October 2022 is late for COVID. If it was due to COVID, it would have happened well before now. They can make changes every month.
  2. The vaccine creates far more injury to the heart than COVID (which creates NO added risk per this large-scale Israeli study of 196,992 unvaccinated adults after Covid infection).
  3. Anecdotally, cardiologists only started to notice the damage post-vaccine.
  4. All the sudden deaths started post-vaccine.

The data supporting my 20% damage estimate​

I know from a study of 177 people in Puerto Rico (97% of whom were vaccinated) ages 8 to 84, that 70% of those people, when screened for cardiac injury using an FDA-approved testing device (from Heart Care Corp), exhibited objective signs of cardiac injury.

There was a study done on pilots. It will be published in The Epoch Times later this week. That indicated heart damage in over 20% of pilots screened (The Epoch Times will release the exact number).
The Thailand study showed nearly 30% of kids were injured. But kids are indestructible so a 30% injury rate in kids translates into a higher rate for adults.

VAERS shows that cardiac damage happens at all ages, not just the young:


Bottom line: The most logical conclusion is that the FAA knows the hearts of our nations pilots have been injured by the COVID vaccine that they were coerced into taking, the number of pilots affected is huge, the cardiac damage is extensive, and passenger safety is being compromised by the lowering of the standards to enable pilots to fly.

The right thing would be for the FAA to come clean and admit to the American public that the COVID vaccine has injured 20% or more of the pilots (based on their limited EKG screening), but I doubt that they will ever do that.

The change: from 200 msec to 300 msec and beyond

The changes were made on October 24, 2022 to the GUIDE FOR AVIATION MEDICAL EXAMINERS.
Here is the change log where you can see the change listed (see page 4):


Here is what the policy was before the change. It was just one row:


Here are what it looks like as of Oct 24, 2022 (click the image to see the context):


So it’s now two rows, one for less than 300 ms (it used to be 200 ms), and a second row to handle 300 ms or more.
For more information about the change, see Myocarditis: Once Rare, Now Common.

The Thailand study​

In the US, we are not allowed to do lab tests on people before and after the vaccine.

The reason for that is simple: it would make it crystal clear that the vaccines are unsafe. That is why there are no before/after studies in the US. There never will be.

Why? Because that is how science works in America today: it’s unethical to design a study that might expose that the COVID vaccines that they forced us to take cause harm.

Think I’m kidding about how they game the trials? Get yourself a copy of Turtles All the Way Down and just read the first chapter. It’s eye opening.

Even though we can’t do a before/after study in the US, they did such a study in Thailand on 301 kids. They found that 29.24% of the participants developed cardiac injuries within days after they got the second shot:


But here’s the most important part about that study that nobody points out:
None of the tests that were done in the Thailand study included doing a cardiac MRI with contrast on all the participants since that would be expensive and invasive. That test is the gold-standard for cardiac injury.
In other words, the 29% rate of injury was a lower bound of injury.
If you did a cardiac MRI on all those kids, you are going to find stuff that you will not find using the cheap and easy tests. Maybe a lot of stuff.

Summary

I believe that the actual rate of heart injury from these vaccines will be found to be well over the 29.7% rate of heart damage in the Thailand study.

At a more conservative 20% injury rate, we are looking at 50M Americans with heart damage caused by the jab.
As more studies are done, it’s going to be crystal clear why so many people are dying suddenly, especially kids. It’s also going to explain why nursing homes have lost up to 33% of their residents in 12 months where before they were losing only 1 or 2% a year. It’s going to explain why I was unable to find even a single nursing home where the all-cause mortality dropped after the vaccines rolled out. And it’s going to explain why none of the nursing homes wanted to talk to me about what happened to people after the shots rolled out.
Confidence in the CDC and the medical community should hit rock bottom after it is revealed how extensive the damage caused by these vaccines is.

The fact that the Thailand study was published in a peer-reviewed journal, that they only did the easy-to-do assessments (which only found a portion of the damage), and the FAA quietly changed their EKG guidance should at least open your mind to the possibility that I might be right.

This narrative is going to start falling apart at an accelerated rate.
Stay tuned. The best is yet to come. And it’s going to be epic.
 

Southside

Has No Life - Lives on TB

The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal. We should be concerned. Very concerned.​

After the vaccine rolled out, the FAA secretly widened the EKG parameter range for pilots so they wouldn't be grounded. It looks like the vax gave at least 50M Americans heart damage.​


Steve Kirsch

8 hr ago

How airlines plan to create new generation of pilots at time of crisis
The FAA just telegraphed the fact that a substantial number of airline pilots have had serious heart damage from the COVID vaccine by widening the ECG parameters for pilots.

In the October 2022 version of the FAA Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners, the FAA quietly widened the EKG parameters beyond the normal range (from a PR max of .2 to unlimited). And they didn’t widen the range by a little. They widened it by a lot. It was done after the vaccine rollout.

This is extraordinary. They did it hoping nobody would notice. It worked for a while. Nobody caught it.
But you can’t hide these things for long.

This is a tacit admission from the US government that the COVID vaccine has damaged the hearts of our pilots. Not just a few pilots. A lot of pilots and a lot of damage.

The cardiac harm of course is not limited to pilots.

My best guess right now is that over 50M Americans sustained some amount of heart damage from the shot.
That’s a lot of people who will be very upset when they realize the vaccine they took to reduce their chance of dying from COVID actually worked in reverse making it:
  1. More likely that people will get COVID
  2. Be hospitalized from COVID and other diseases
  3. Die from COVID (and other diseases)
  4. You also have an excellent chance of getting a lifetime of heart damage for no extra charge.
But don’t worry; you can’t sue them. They fixed the law so none of them aren’t liable (the doctors, the drug companies, the government). After all, you took the vaccine of your own free will. It’s not like you were forced (or coerced) to take it or anything like that! And there were plenty of people warning you not to take the shots (even though they censored most of them).

In this article, I will explain the evidence and thinking behind all my claims.
As I learn more, I will refine the estimate.

Introduction​

On October 24, 2022, the FAA quietly, without any announcement at all, widened the EKG requirements necessary for pilots to be able to fly.

The PR (a measure of heart function) used to be in the range of .12 to .2.
It is now: .12 to .3 and potentially even higher.

This is a very wide range; it accommodates people who have cardiac injury. Cardiologist Thomas Levy is appalled at this change:


Why did they make the change?​

Why would they do that?
I’ll take an educated guess as to why they did that. I believe it is because they knew if they kept the original range, too many pilots would have to be grounded. That would be extremely problematic; commercial aviation in the US would be severely disrupted.
And why did they do that quietly without notifying the public or the mainstream media?

I’m pretty sure they won’t tell me, so I’ll speculate: it’s because they didn’t want anyone to know.

In other words, the COVID vaccine has seriously injured a lot of pilots and the FAA knows it and said nothing because that would tip off the country that the vaccines are unsafe. And you aren’t allowed to do that.

Why we sure it was the vaccine that did it​

There are several clues that are consistent with “it was the vaccine and not COVID”:
  1. They were quiet about it. If it was COVID, you can be public. But the vaccine is supposed to be safe.
  2. The timing. October 2022 is late for COVID. If it was due to COVID, it would have happened well before now. They can make changes every month.
  3. The vaccine creates far more injury to the heart than COVID (which creates NO added risk per this large-scale Israeli study of 196,992 unvaccinated adults after Covid infection).
  4. Anecdotally, cardiologists only started to notice the damage post-vaccine.
  5. All the sudden deaths started post-vaccine.

The data supporting my 20% damage estimate​

I know from a study of 177 people in Puerto Rico (97% of whom were vaccinated) ages 8 to 84, that 70% of those people, when screened for cardiac injury using an FDA-approved testing device (from Heart Care Corp), exhibited objective signs of cardiac injury.

There was a study done on pilots. It will be published in The Epoch Times later this week. That indicated heart damage in over 20% of pilots screened (The Epoch Times will release the exact number).
The Thailand study showed nearly 30% of kids were injured. But kids are indestructible so a 30% injury rate in kids translates into a higher rate for adults.

VAERS shows that cardiac damage happens at all ages, not just the young:

Bottom line: The most logical conclusion is that the FAA knows the hearts of our nations pilots have been injured by the COVID vaccine that they were coerced into taking, the number of pilots affected is huge, the cardiac damage is extensive, and passenger safety is being compromised by the lowering of the standards to enable pilots to fly.

The right thing would be for the FAA to come clean and admit to the American public that the COVID vaccine has injured 20% or more of the pilots (based on their limited EKG screening), but I doubt that they will ever do that.

The change: from 200 msec to 300 msec and beyond

The changes were made on October 24, 2022 to the GUIDE FOR AVIATION MEDICAL EXAMINERS.
Here is the change log where you can see the change listed (see page 4):

Here is what the policy was before the change. It was just one row:

Here are what it looks like as of Oct 24, 2022 (click the image to see the context):

So it’s now two rows, one for less than 300 ms (it used to be 200 ms), and a second row to handle 300 ms or more.
For more information about the change, see Myocarditis: Once Rare, Now Common.

The Thailand study​

In the US, we are not allowed to do lab tests on people before and after the vaccine.

The reason for that is simple: it would make it crystal clear that the vaccines are unsafe. That is why there are no before/after studies in the US. There never will be.

Why? Because that is how science works in America today: it’s unethical to design a study that might expose that the COVID vaccines that they forced us to take cause harm.

Think I’m kidding about how they game the trials? Get yourself a copy of Turtles All the Way Down and just read the first chapter. It’s eye opening.

Even though we can’t do a before/after study in the US, they did such a study in Thailand on 301 kids. They found that 29.24% of the participants developed cardiac injuries within days after they got the second shot:

But here’s the most important part about that study that nobody points out:

In other words, the 29% rate of injury was a lower bound of injury.
If you did a cardiac MRI on all those kids, you are going to find stuff that you will not find using the cheap and easy tests. Maybe a lot of stuff.

Summary​

I believe that the actual rate of heart injury from these vaccines will be found to be well over the 29.7% rate of heart damage in the Thailand study.

At a more conservative 20% injury rate, we are looking at 50M Americans with heart damage caused by the jab.
As more studies are done, it’s going to be crystal clear why so many people are dying suddenly, especially kids. It’s also going to explain why nursing homes have lost up to 33% of their residents in 12 months where before they were losing only 1 or 2% a year. It’s going to explain why I was unable to find even a single nursing home where the all-cause mortality dropped after the vaccines rolled out. And it’s going to explain why none of the nursing homes wanted to talk to me about what happened to people after the shots rolled out.
Confidence in the CDC and the medical community should hit rock bottom after it is revealed how extensive the damage caused by these vaccines is.

The fact that the Thailand study was published in a peer-reviewed journal, that they only did the easy-to-do assessments (which only found a portion of the damage), and the FAA quietly changed their EKG guidance should at least open your mind to the possibility that I might be right.

This narrative is going to start falling apart at an accelerated rate.
Stay tuned. The best is yet to come. And it’s going to be epic.
Thank you.
Great article. Shows the corruption in hiding the results, as well as the damage in the vaccine.
 

WFK

Senior Something
"Atrial Tachycardia" That is exactly what I was diagnosed with after my Vax.
It was normal before, because I had for years done my own ECGs with the KARDIA tool and App.
Blood pressure machines do not like irregular heart beat; so it shows up frequently during routine measurements.
 

Satanta

Stone Cold Crazy
_______________
Alright!!!

Time to update by "When I win the lottery" plan to include "Buy a Gulfstrean and build a runway in the back yard." I'd given up that dream when my heart problems started a decade ago. Now I'm suddenly good to go.
Cool! I will send you my Home coordinants. Don't fly over Those but, if you decided to do a flyby there is a bifassed Field right next to us you can buzz.
 

BillyT

Contributing Member
It’s a lot worse than the article implies. Ballpark estimate is that 90% of all airline pilots took the shot.
They were forced to take the shot. I have a friend at one of the big airlines that was put on unpaid leave because he did not take the vaccine. Threatened to be fired, etc. From what I hear they are still requiring the vaccines to be hired. It's crazy.
 

von Koehler

Has No Life - Lives on TB

The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal. We should be concerned. Very concerned.​

After the vaccine rolled out, the FAA secretly widened the EKG parameter range for pilots so they wouldn't be grounded. It looks like the vax gave at least 50M Americans heart damage.​


Steve Kirsch

8 hr ago

How airlines plan to create new generation of pilots at time of crisis
The FAA just telegraphed the fact that a substantial number of airline pilots have had serious heart damage from the COVID vaccine by widening the ECG parameters for pilots.

In the October 2022 version of the FAA Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners, the FAA quietly widened the EKG parameters beyond the normal range (from a PR max of .2 to unlimited). And they didn’t widen the range by a little. They widened it by a lot. It was done after the vaccine rollout.

This is extraordinary. They did it hoping nobody would notice. It worked for a while. Nobody caught it.
But you can’t hide these things for long.

This is a tacit admission from the US government that the COVID vaccine has damaged the hearts of our pilots. Not just a few pilots. A lot of pilots and a lot of damage.

The cardiac harm of course is not limited to pilots.

My best guess right now is that over 50M Americans sustained some amount of heart damage from the shot.
That’s a lot of people who will be very upset when they realize the vaccine they took to reduce their chance of dying from COVID actually worked in reverse making it:
  1. More likely that people will get COVID
  2. Be hospitalized from COVID and other diseases
  3. Die from COVID (and other diseases)
  4. You also have an excellent chance of getting a lifetime of heart damage for no extra charge.
But don’t worry; you can’t sue them. They fixed the law so none of them aren’t liable (the doctors, the drug companies, the government). After all, you took the vaccine of your own free will. It’s not like you were forced (or coerced) to take it or anything like that! And there were plenty of people warning you not to take the shots (even though they censored most of them).

In this article, I will explain the evidence and thinking behind all my claims.
As I learn more, I will refine the estimate.

Introduction​

On October 24, 2022, the FAA quietly, without any announcement at all, widened the EKG requirements necessary for pilots to be able to fly.

The PR (a measure of heart function) used to be in the range of .12 to .2.
It is now: .12 to .3 and potentially even higher.

This is a very wide range; it accommodates people who have cardiac injury. Cardiologist Thomas Levy is appalled at this change:


Why did they make the change?​

Why would they do that?
I’ll take an educated guess as to why they did that. I believe it is because they knew if they kept the original range, too many pilots would have to be grounded. That would be extremely problematic; commercial aviation in the US would be severely disrupted.
And why did they do that quietly without notifying the public or the mainstream media?

I’m pretty sure they won’t tell me, so I’ll speculate: it’s because they didn’t want anyone to know.

In other words, the COVID vaccine has seriously injured a lot of pilots and the FAA knows it and said nothing because that would tip off the country that the vaccines are unsafe. And you aren’t allowed to do that.

Why we sure it was the vaccine that did it​

There are several clues that are consistent with “it was the vaccine and not COVID”:
  1. They were quiet about it. If it was COVID, you can be public. But the vaccine is supposed to be safe.
  2. The timing. October 2022 is late for COVID. If it was due to COVID, it would have happened well before now. They can make changes every month.
  3. The vaccine creates far more injury to the heart than COVID (which creates NO added risk per this large-scale Israeli study of 196,992 unvaccinated adults after Covid infection).
  4. Anecdotally, cardiologists only started to notice the damage post-vaccine.
  5. All the sudden deaths started post-vaccine.

The data supporting my 20% damage estimate​

I know from a study of 177 people in Puerto Rico (97% of whom were vaccinated) ages 8 to 84, that 70% of those people, when screened for cardiac injury using an FDA-approved testing device (from Heart Care Corp), exhibited objective signs of cardiac injury.

There was a study done on pilots. It will be published in The Epoch Times later this week. That indicated heart damage in over 20% of pilots screened (The Epoch Times will release the exact number).
The Thailand study showed nearly 30% of kids were injured. But kids are indestructible so a 30% injury rate in kids translates into a higher rate for adults.

VAERS shows that cardiac damage happens at all ages, not just the young:

Bottom line: The most logical conclusion is that the FAA knows the hearts of our nations pilots have been injured by the COVID vaccine that they were coerced into taking, the number of pilots affected is huge, the cardiac damage is extensive, and passenger safety is being compromised by the lowering of the standards to enable pilots to fly.

The right thing would be for the FAA to come clean and admit to the American public that the COVID vaccine has injured 20% or more of the pilots (based on their limited EKG screening), but I doubt that they will ever do that.

The change: from 200 msec to 300 msec and beyond

The changes were made on October 24, 2022 to the GUIDE FOR AVIATION MEDICAL EXAMINERS.
Here is the change log where you can see the change listed (see page 4):

Here is what the policy was before the change. It was just one row:

Here are what it looks like as of Oct 24, 2022 (click the image to see the context):

So it’s now two rows, one for less than 300 ms (it used to be 200 ms), and a second row to handle 300 ms or more.
For more information about the change, see Myocarditis: Once Rare, Now Common.

The Thailand study​

In the US, we are not allowed to do lab tests on people before and after the vaccine.

The reason for that is simple: it would make it crystal clear that the vaccines are unsafe. That is why there are no before/after studies in the US. There never will be.

Why? Because that is how science works in America today: it’s unethical to design a study that might expose that the COVID vaccines that they forced us to take cause harm.

Think I’m kidding about how they game the trials? Get yourself a copy of Turtles All the Way Down and just read the first chapter. It’s eye opening.

Even though we can’t do a before/after study in the US, they did such a study in Thailand on 301 kids. They found that 29.24% of the participants developed cardiac injuries within days after they got the second shot:

But here’s the most important part about that study that nobody points out:

In other words, the 29% rate of injury was a lower bound of injury.
If you did a cardiac MRI on all those kids, you are going to find stuff that you will not find using the cheap and easy tests. Maybe a lot of stuff.

Summary​

I believe that the actual rate of heart injury from these vaccines will be found to be well over the 29.7% rate of heart damage in the Thailand study.

At a more conservative 20% injury rate, we are looking at 50M Americans with heart damage caused by the jab.
As more studies are done, it’s going to be crystal clear why so many people are dying suddenly, especially kids. It’s also going to explain why nursing homes have lost up to 33% of their residents in 12 months where before they were losing only 1 or 2% a year. It’s going to explain why I was unable to find even a single nursing home where the all-cause mortality dropped after the vaccines rolled out. And it’s going to explain why none of the nursing homes wanted to talk to me about what happened to people after the shots rolled out.
Confidence in the CDC and the medical community should hit rock bottom after it is revealed how extensive the damage caused by these vaccines is.

The fact that the Thailand study was published in a peer-reviewed journal, that they only did the easy-to-do assessments (which only found a portion of the damage), and the FAA quietly changed their EKG guidance should at least open your mind to the possibility that I might be right.

This narrative is going to start falling apart at an accelerated rate.
Stay tuned. The best is yet to come. And it’s going to be epic.

We will know it's serious when the elite require only Purebloods to pilot their jets.

Oh wait, didn't that already happen at Davos?
 

somewherepress

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Here is a letter from the FAA to several airlines. Make of it what you will.

Shadow
Interesting letter.

But there is one big problem with your post...

The letter is to the FAA--not from the FAA.

Those who signed it include:

Peter McCullough, M.D. and Robert F. Kennedy Jr--

Check the signature page. Page 10 in the PDF:

Sincerely,

Leigh Taylor Dundas, Esq. Dr. Peter McCullough, M.D. (CV attached) Advocates for Citizens' Rights Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Ryan Cole Robert Kennedy, Jr., Esq. Dr. Ryan Cole, M.D. (CV attached) Children's Health Defense Mary Holland Theresa Long Mary Holland, Esq. Lt. Colonel Theresa Long, M.D., MPH Children's Health Defense Army Aerospace Medicine Specialist Aviation Officer Course & Mishap Training (CV attached) Peter Chambers Lt. Colonel Peter Chambers, M.D. Special Forces Flight Surgeon - Green Beret Purple Heart, Meritorious Service Medal, Bronze Star (CV attached)
 

Shadow

Swift, Silent,...Sleepy
This is the FAA guidelines for medical examiners. As you can see even FDA approved drugs are not allowed to be taken until 12 months after their approval date. An emergency authorization is not even an approval. The FAA, the pilots, their union, their medical examiners and many more should have caught this and spoken up. From there we move into conspiracy theory. Look at the WEF attendees at Davos wanting unvaccinated pilots.

Shadow

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/aam/ame/guide/pharm/dni_dnf/

Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners​

Pharmaceuticals (Therapeutic Medications)​

Do Not Issue - Do Not Fly​

The information in this section is provided to advise Aviation Medical Examiners (AMEs) about two medication issues:

  • Medications for which they should not issue (DNI) applicants without clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), AND
  • Medications for which for which they should advise airmen to not fly (DNF) and provide additional safety information to the applicant.
The lists of medications in this section are not meant to be all-inclusive or comprehensive, but rather address the most common concerns.

For any medication, the AME should ascertain for what condition the medication is being used, how long, frequency, and any side effects of the medication. The safety impact of the underlying condition should also be considered. If there are any questions, please call the Regional Flight Surgeon's (RFS) office or the Aerospace Medicine Certification Division (AMCD).

Do Not Issue. AMEs should not issue airmen medical certificates to applicants who are using these classes of medications or medications.

  • Angina medications
    • nitrates (nitroglycerin, isosorbide dinitrate, imdur),
    • ranolazine (Ranexa).
  • Anticholinergics (oral)
    • e.g: atropine, benztropine (Cogentin)
  • Cancer treatments including chemotherapeutics, biologics, radiation therapy, etc., whether used for induction, "maintenance," or suppressive therapy.
  • Controlled Substances (Schedules I - V). An open prescription for chronic or intermittent use of any drug or substance.
    • This includes medical marijuana, even if legally allowed or prescribed under state law.
    • Note: for documented temporary use of a drug solely for a medical procedure or for a medical condition, and the medication has been discontinued, see below.
  • Diabetic medications
  • Dopamine agonists used for Parkinson's disease or other medical conditions:
    • bromocriptine (Cycloset, Parlodel),
    • pramipexole (Mirapex), ropinirole (Requip), and
    • rotigotine (NeuPro)
  • FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved less than 12 months ago. The FAA generally requires at least one-year of post-marketing experience with a new drug before consideration for aeromedical certification purposes. This observation period allows time for uncommon, but aeromedically significant, adverse effects to manifest themselves. Contact either your Regional Flight Surgeon or AMCD for guidance on specific applicants or to request consideration for a particular medication.
  • Hypertensive (centrally acting) including but not limited to
    • clonidine
    • nitrates
    • guanabenz, methyldopa, and reserpine
  • Malaria medication - mefloquine (Lariam)
  • Over-active bladder (OAB)/Antimuscarinic medications as these carry strong warnings about potential for sedation and impaired cognition.
    • e.g.: tolterodine (Detrol),
    • oxybutynin (Ditropan),
    • solifenacin (Vesicare).
  • Psychiatric or Psychotropic medications, (even when used for something other than a mental health condition) including but not limited to:
    • antidepressants (certain SSRIs may be allowed - see SSRI policy)
    • antianxiety drugs - e.g.: alprazolam (Xanax)
    • antipsychotics
    • attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications
    • mood stabilizers
    • sedative-hypnotics
    • stimulants
    • tranquilizers
  • Seizure medications, even if used for non-seizure conditions such as migraines
  • Smoking cessation aid - e.g.: varenicline (Chantix)
  • Steroids, high dose (greater than 20 mg prednisone or prednisone-equivalent per day)
  • Weight loss medications - ex: combinations including phentermine or naltrexone.
Do Not Fly. Airmen should not fly while using any of the medications in the Do Not Issue section above or while using any of the medications or classes/groups of medications listed below without an acceptable wait time after the last dose. All of these medications may cause sedation (drowsiness) and impair cognitive function, seriously degrading pilot performance. This impairment can occur even when the individual feels alert and is apparently functioning normally - in other words, the airman can be "unaware of impair."

For aviation safety, airmen should not fly following the last dose of any of the medications below until a period of time has elapsed equal to:

  • 5-times the maximum pharmacologic half-life of the medication; or
  • 5-times the maximum hour dose interval if pharmacologic half-life information is not available. For example, there is a 30-hour wait time for a medication that is taken every 4 to 6 hours (5 times 6)


Label warnings. Airmen should not fly while using any medication, prescription or OTC, that carries a label precaution or warning that it may cause drowsiness or advises the user "be careful when driving a motor vehicle or operating machinery." This applies even if label states "until you know how the medication affects you" and even if the airman has used the medication before with no apparent adverse effect. Such medications can cause impairment even when the airman feels alert and unimpaired (see "unaware of impair" above).

  • Allergy medications (PDF).
    • Sedating Antihistamines. These are found in many allergy and other types of medications and may NOT be used for flight. This applies to both nasal and oral formulations.
    • Nonsedating antihistamines. Medications such as loratadine, desloratadine, and fexofenadine may be used while flying, if symptoms are controlled without adverse side effects after an adequate initial trial period.
  • Muscle relaxants: This includes but is not limited to carisoprodol (Soma) and cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril).
  • Over-the-counter active dietary supplements such as Kava-Kava and Valerian.
  • Pain medication:
    • Narcotic pain relievers. This includes but is not limited to morphine, codeine, oxycodone (Percodan; Oxycontin), and hydrocodone (Vicodin, etc.).
    • Non-narcotic pain relievers such as tramadol (Ultram).
  • "Pre-medication" or "pre-procedure" drugs. This includes all drugs used as an aid to outpatient surgical or dental procedures.
  • Sleep aids. All the currently available sleep aids, both prescription and over-the-counter (OTC), can cause impairment of mental processes and reaction times, even when the individual feels fully awake.
    • See wait times for currently available prescription sleep aids
    • Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) - Many OTC sleep aids contain diphenhydramine as the active ingredient. The wait time after diphenhydramine is 60 hours (based on maximum pharmacologic half-life)
For airmen seeking more information, see Medications and Flying (PDF) and What Over The Counter Medications Can I Take and Still Be Safe to Fly? (PDF)
 

Buick Electra

TB2K Girls with Guns
My pastor and I were just having this discussion about pilots because one of our church members this morning had to have surgery to have "a growth of fatty tissue" (<- what the surgeon is technically calling it for now until the biopsy comes back), wound around the lining of his duodenum, (colon). Don't know if he's vaxed but my pastor, who used to fly, is and we ended up on the topic of the pilots dying from blood clots and heart failure, and my pastor is convinced the lack of pilots is due to all the Boomer pilots retiring. That's when I piped in with the mandatory jabs and how many were dying after they had gotten them and how many well-off business peeps are looking for unvaxed pilots.


Not sure if he believed me, but I appreciate this substack being posted as I'm sending this to my pastor.
 

Delta

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I was thinking about this thread this afternoon while driving along the freeway. There are way more motorists than pilots. One would suppose that the same percentage of motorists as pilots got the vax and are on the verge of sudden death. Alas, no cars swerved into my lane with vaxed drivers slumped over the wheels. Disappointed, I turned for home.
 

wobble

Veteran Member
I was thinking about this thread this afternoon while driving along the freeway. There are way more motorists than pilots. One would suppose that the same percentage of motorists as pilots got the vax and are on the verge of sudden death. Alas, no cars swerved into my lane with vaxed drivers slumped over the wheels. Disappointed, I turned for home.
Funny, but altitude and blood pressure are frenemies.
 

MountainBiker

Veteran Member
"Atrial Tachycardia" That is exactly what I was diagnosed with after my Vax.
It was normal before, because I had for years done my own ECGs with the KARDIA tool and App.
Blood pressure machines do not like irregular heart beat; so it shows up frequently during routine measurements.
I too developed it after getting the booster shot, though a cardiac ablation a year ago seems to have corrected the problem. All the tests I've had over the past year have been normal.
 
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