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EU pilots medical database

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EU aviation safety body to set up pilots' medical database by end 2016.

Europe's aviation safety regulator aims to set up a medical database for pilots by December 2016 following the Germanwings crash earlier this year.
The European Aviation Safety Agency's (EASA) comments were in response to recommendations from a task force, which in July called for improved psychological screening of new pilots and a European database with details of medical visits.

As things stand, pilots can get specialist check-ups in any member state where the doctor has been certified by EASA. The database is intended to avoid "medical tourism", or going abroad to get a favourable certificate for a pilot's licence.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/ ... LC20151020
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