
What every pilot needs to know about medication
The next time you have your pilot’s licence in hand, flip it over. If your Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) has printed your latest medical certificate on the official CAA paper,

The next time you have your pilot’s licence in hand, flip it over. If your Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) has printed your latest medical certificate on the official CAA paper,

A pilot physician has a unique, and much needed, skills set, which begs the question: why aren’t there more of them? Here’s Dr Bjorn Buchner’s perspective.

In any avmed practice, there are two things that take up a lot of time in a day. The first is the paperwork, which never seems to end. What’s the

The human heart is a tough and reliable machine
For obvious reasons, dependable power plants are pretty important in aviation. Modern commercial turbine motors are now approaching

For this week, I thought I may depart from my previous index-finger-waving-in-the-air lecture on fitness and pick one of the fun topics in aviation medicine. You know the ones I