European Union Aviation Safety Agency EASA Tender

Contract notice: Horizon Europe project: The aviation and suitability of pilots and air traffic controllers This call for tender addresses research proposals for the development of new health safety standards for flight crews and air traffic controllers.The research should assess the impact of hiv seropositivity, including the impact of the side effects of combination antiretroviral treatment, on the fitness to fly and general health and wellbeing of pilots holding a class 1 medical certificate.New technologies have been released on the market that provide for improved curative or supportive treatments in terms of medication and supportive equipment (implantable or external) that highly improve the quality of life for cardiac patients. some types of equipment, although performing very well on the ground, are potentially affected by the inflight conditions such as humidity, vibration, pressure, and temperature, which may lead to inflight malfunctions (be it a regular flight or the case of sudden cabin decompression). the study of such types of equipment will have an impact on crew members, particularly on their fitness to perform their duties, but also on passengers that have such devices, even if flying only occasionally. in a similar way, new treatments have been developed to alleviate certain pathological conditions; nevertheless, for some of these treatments the side effects may be further augmented by the cabin environment to the level of making them incompatible with flying. in the case of medication, the issue has a greater impact on the fitness of crew members rather than of occasional passengers. EUROPEAN UNION (EU),