{"id":4800,"date":"2011-09-23T13:06:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T13:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2011-09-23T13:06:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T13:06:46","slug":"i-am-hiv-positive-can-i-be-a-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/4800","title":{"rendered":"I am HIV positive, can I be a pilot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rang up the Civil Aviation Authority this afternoon and they said it will not affect you as a private pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Link to this message is information from the CAA website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caa.co.uk\/default.aspx?catid=49&amp;pagetype=90&amp;pageid=7099\">http:\/\/www.caa.co.uk\/default.aspx?catid=49&amp;pagetype=90&amp;pageid=7099<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you get to the website, go to home, and click on safety  regulation, under safety regulation, you will click on medical, and  under that you will click on document download. Finally under document  download, click on other, and scroll to the end and you will find HIV  Guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>I wish you the best of Luck in your endevour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry if this question seems silly or directed at the wrong people but I didn&#8217;t know who else to ask. I am HIV+ and on medication and I want to be able to learn to fly. I have read that having HIV means you will fail the medical required to get a Private Pilot License.<\/p>\n<p>I have had a look on the Civil Aviation Authority website but I can&#8217;t seem to find a definite answer as to whether this is the case. Also, there is mention of new European Aviation regulations coming in but wasn&#8217;t sure how this would affect the medical?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you and apologies if this question is out of place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-disclosure","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}