#191 AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS medication usage a factor in 10 to 13 percent

Over the counter medication usage by pilots remain a factor in 10 to 13% of aircraft accidents. That's pretty big if you think about it. Welcome to day 191 Coffee with Kenny. Making this one kind of quick. I'm doing some flight planning today for a trip to Ohio. So most of these topics I'm really super passionate about and this one, I'm one of those people that really don't take medication very often. I need to find some wood to knock on because I'm just a lucky individual that doesn't get sick very often. And I don't even like taking stuff for headache. I mean, I will if it's really bad and if I go to the doctor and I'm really sick and they he prescribes me something, I'll take it. It's not like it's a religious thing. I'm not like that. You know, in our society, people are very quick to, you know, take a pill for everything. So that's just not me. So I really haven't dealt too much with this problem in my 20 years of flying just because I'm not big on taking medications. And if I'm taking something, it's because I'm freaking sick. And if I'm not sick that I'm taking medication, I'm not flying. So I don't put myself in that position. Some of you this will be a little tougher for because even though we have the I'm safe checklist and we have all these things we talk about when you're trying, when you have a job and you're paying the bills, of course your company says, oh, if you're sick, stay home. But then when you try to call in, oh, we're short pilots and you sure you can't make it? So, you know, it's kind of there's the training world and what we say and then there's the real world, right? It's kind of like back in the day of being a police officer and the chief's like, well, you need to be on your deathbed. If you call in sick for work, sad to say, right? In an ems, you knew that too. Because most of time you're short bases. So if you call in sick, there's nobody to call in, come to come in and cover you. So the base goes out of service. So then you're feeling guilty about it and even though they'll tell you, oh, stay home if you're sick, oh, well, you sure you can't make it in? You know, so that is the age old problem of flying and having a job and working for somebody else. Right. I'm very lucky at this point that I fly when I want to. I'm not answering anybody. So for me it's different. Again, if I'm sick, I'm not going to fly. So that's number three of the helicopter safety team of the seven things they talked about. And people ask so many questions all the time about medical issues and medication. You just need to reach out to your medical examiner. I mean the guy's there to take your money and do your medical. They also need to be there to support you. When you have a question, you call into your medical examiner and you get the question answered. You just say, hey, I've got this, you know, medications prescribed to me and I need to know if this is something I can fly with or if you're in doubt, you know, don't do it. So quick video again. This isn't one that I'm super passionate about just because I'm lucky. I'm lucky guy, man, should I knock on wood again. I'm just so lucky I never get sick. I'm gonna jinx myself. Dang it. Hope not. So for those of you that are taking medications, make sure you reach out to your designated, your designated, I want to say designated examiner, your FAA medical examiner and pose that question and find out. That's all I can really tell you on that one. So keep that in mind. 10 to 13% is a pretty big one. I mean that's huge. So just remember this is from the US Helicopter Safety Team. This is in response to the 2019 accidents we've had so far through this year. And we're talking fatal accidents, right? It's up to us to be informed. It's up, up to us to be knowledgeable. 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