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THE BEST INVESTMENT YOU CAN MAKE IN AVIATION
African Pilot
|December 2022
Look into any pilot’s hangar and you will see a wide variety of oils and lubricants for their aircraft. Look closer and you will also see a variety of tools and different cleaning supplies for every part of the aircraft. Then take a look inside the cockpit and you will see redundant systems to ensure safe flight.
he pilot wants to be sure that plane takes him / her from point A to point B without a whole lot of stress," notes David Hale, founder of Pilot Medical Solutions. David Hale started Pilot Medical Solutions more than 30 years ago.
The pilot wants to be sure that plane takes him / her from point A to point B without a whole lot of stress," notes David Hale, founder of Pilot Medical Solutions. David Hale started Pilot Medical Solutions more than 30 years ago. But often pilots forget to take care of the most important thing in the airplane: themselves.
"Pilots would not think of putting bad, dirty, aluminium-filled oil into their aircraft, but that is what they do with their bodies," says Hale. "Potentially, it is going to affect the risk that that machine does not get you from point A to point B." Hale asks, "Are you taking care of yourself can reap benefits far beyond getting from point A to point B?"
Of course, it will allow you to keep your medical so you can keep flying. More importantly, it could have a huge impact on your insurance premiums: A healthy pilot is a much better bet than one who is not healthy. "We have helped many people with both life insurance and health insurance," Hale says. "When you reduce your risk factors, let's say, for heart disease or you lower your weight to a more optimal number, those things are part of the tables that are used to rate life insurance. So, when someone's cholesterol goes down, their weight goes down, their risk factors for heart disease goes down. They are a better investment as far as what their longevity is going to be. It is not something that a lot of pilots come to us for, but again, they probably should and we can help with this."
This story is from the December 2022 edition of African Pilot.
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