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...recent meeting on aviation medicine in Nice, France, Dr. Alois Sauer, a West German physician who does overseas examinations for the FAA, reported that he had put 804 U.S. and German pilots through voluntary checkups stricter than those the FAA requires. Over a period of eight years, Dr. Sauer's examinations revealed that at least 50 pilots, nearly all of them Americans who fly charter planes, had diseases that could have made them unfit to fly. Some had serious cardiovascular disorders which might not have shown up in FAA exams. Other problems discovered included diabetes, liver ailments, syphilis, tuberculosis...
Blind Spots. Sauer's was not the only alarm sounded at the meeting. United Airlines reported that in three years of monitoring 175 pilots for symptoms of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, they discovered that 20% showed some tendency toward the condition. Two of these pilots had such attendant symptoms as visual impairment, dizziness and sweating. Hypoglycemia, however, is easily controlled. Indeed, none of the pilots with hypoglycemic tendencies had to be grounded as a result of their condition; their blood sugar counts were stabilized with special diets...
...flyers may soon be subjected to more stringent testing, however, for the FAA is now considering requiring some of the checks Sauer incorporated into his study. One of them is the Master "two-step" test designed to measure how the heart reacts to the physical stress of repeatedly ascending and descending two steps in the testing room. Although such tests have become routine additions to many physical examinations, the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 31,000 pilots, objects to the proposal. One of its arguments is that the two-step test could produce misleading results. In fact, ALPA...
...N.F.L.'s Cleveland Browns in the early 1960s. His toughness on the field earned him an All-Pro rating; out of uniform he served as vice president of the N.F.L. Players' Association. Unlike St. Louis Cardinals Linebacker Dave Meggyesy or New York Jets Wide Receiver George Sauer. who recently left football because they felt it was dehumanizing, Parrish claims to love the sport. Now a Teamster official, he "retired," according to his own account, because he was blacklisted from a game that gave him a fierce sense of his identity...
...only a threat, but the tears were certainly authentic. Joe Willie Namath, quarterback of professional football's world-champion New York Jets, insisted that he meant business when he announced at a news conference that he was "retiring reluctantly" from the game-and taking Teammates George Sauer, Pete Lammons and Jim Hudson with him. The 26-year-old superstar, whose high-velocity passes carried the Jets to a startling 16-7 upset over the National Football League's powerful Baltimore Colts earlier this year, gave as his reason the latest in a long series of off-the-field...