Medical

FFPLUM Medical Committee

Practical information on regulations and health matters

Issuing the Medical Certificate of No Contraindication to Microlight Flying (CMNCI)

When you first apply for a licence or if your federation licence has lapsed for at least a year, you must hold a medical certificate of no contraindication less than a year old certifying that there is no contraindication to flying microlights. This is in no way an aeronautical medical examination, and any practising medical doctor in the European Community or Switzerland, in particular your family doctor, is entitled to issue this certificate.

Class 1, Class 2 or LAPL aeronautical medical certificates issued in the European Community replace the CMNCI provided that their expiry date covers the current calendar year.

If you apply online for a first federation licence, for your membership to be validated you must send the following to the FFPLUM head office within eight days:

• either the original of the medical certificate of no contraindication, less than a year old at the date of entry,
• or, for general aviation pilots, a copy of their valid aeronautical medical certificate.

For a postal application, simply enclose one of these documents with your licence application.

Licence renewal

"Leisure" licences are renewed at the start of each year. However, there is no need to send a medical certificate at each renewal.

To take part in a competition, a microlight CMNCI stating "in competition" must be issued and must be less than a year old on the date the planned competition ends.

When a medical certificate is not required, the pilot or their legal representative (if a minor) must complete a health questionnaire called "QS — SPORT" (or cerfa 15699). This questionnaire does not have to be sent to the FFPLUM. If the pilot has answered "Yes" to one or more questions, it is their responsibility to ask their doctor for a new medical certificate and send it to the FFPLUM.

Competition

For taking part in competitions, the medical certificate is annual and must state "in competition"

Model CMNCI in PDF format

For information, here is the list of the main medical contraindications:

Any acute or chronic condition that is not stabilised or poorly controlled by treatment, in particular:

• ophthalmological
• cardiovascular
• neuropsychiatric
• balance disorders
• pulmonary
• locomotor
• infectious
• metabolic, especially where there is a risk of hypoglycaemia

Special cases

Certain contraindications may also be waived after an opinion from the Medical Committee. In this case you must send it by post to the Medical Committee at the federation's address, marked "medical confidential".

For certain disabilities, the Medical Committee may be able to find solutions together with the Adapted Flying Committee in some cases. Each case is specific. In summary, send us by post:

• Your doctor's statement of the disability
• The related examinations
• The application for a waiver

Send your requests in a confidential envelope to:

FFPLUM Medical Committee

96 bis, rue Marc Sangnier

94704 - Maisons-Alfort Cedex