Fit to Drop (out of the sky?)

 

So, you’ve got the desire to learn to fly a helicopter. You feel you’ve got the mettle, after all you don’t feel overly dizzy peering over the edge of a kerb, and you were only sick once on that five-minute pleasure flight last year at a summer fair. You’re positive that you’ve got the wealth (although that will be tested fairly strenuously with this particular form of airborne antics) but - and here is the deciding question - do you have the health?

A Class 2 medical certificate is required by the CAA for a PPL(H), the NPPL not being an option for such complex flying machines, apparently. So therefore, if some were to be believed, ruder than rude health is an absolute pre-requisite.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I seem to have more things going wrong with me than a second-hand laptop with coffee stains on the keyboard. My medical file runs to just a couple of volumes less than War and Peace, with only marginally less horrific blood ‘n’ gore detail within, and my idea of vigorous exercise is to jump to some conclusions but hey! – I got one…