Medical Certificates
The two classes of medical certificates available to pilots that get paid to fly.
What are second and first class?
The term for the reduced level of CO2 in the body which results from an excessive rate of breathing.
What is hyperventilation?
The pilots that can experience disorientation and motion sickness.
What is all pilots?
These cells in the eye make color vision possible.
What are cones?
A process intended to identify and manage risk.
What is risk management?
The valid period for a third class medical certificate for a 30 year old pilot.
What is five years?
The type of hypoxia one experiences when there is not enough oxygen available in the air.
What is hypoxic hypoxia?
This part of the inner ear is oriented in three axes.
What are the semicircular canals?
When flying at night, it can take up to these many minutes for your eyes to fully adjust to the dark.
What is 30?
The number of hazardous attitudes identified by the FAA.
What is five?
An alternative to traditional medical certification.
What is BasicMed?
The reason why people experience a reduction in O2 when at higher altitudes.
What is because of a decrease in air pressure or because of there being fewer O2 molecules per volume of air?
The balance and orientation system which involves the inner ear.
What is the vestibular system
The part of the eye that focus light onto the surface of the retina.
What is the lens?
This word is represented by the "V" in the PAVE risk management tool.
What is Environment?
The type of medical certification that a person must receive in order to fly with a potentially disqualifying medical condition.
What is special issuance?
The FAA Supplemental oxygen requirement when flying at 14,500 feet MSL cabin altitude.
What is pilots must immediately go on supplemental oxygen?
The name of the disorientation experienced by pilots which begins with a stabilized turn and a descent.
What is a graveyard spin?
Of the three types of vision, the term for night vision.
What is scotopic?
The first of the six risk management steps.
What is "Identify Potential Hazards"?
AME stand for this.
What is Aviation Medical Examiner?
Time of Useful Consciousness at 25,000 feet MSL
What is 3-5 minutes?
The liquid found in the semicircular canals.
What is the endolymph fluid?
This visual illusion occurs at night during final approach over water or unlighted terrain.
What is the black hole illusion?
A pilot who does not like to be told what to do often displays this hazardous attitude.
What is Anti-authority?