USAAMA - U.S. Army Aeromedical Activity

The United States Army Aeromedical Activity (USAAMA) is the tertiary central aeromedical review authority for all Army aircrew members worldwide. Aerospace medicine specialists make final recommendations for flying duty fitness to the Army personnel system by review of flying duty medical examinations and aeromedical board summaries. The activity director manages the Aeromedical Consultant Advisory Panel composed of aerospace medicine specialists, flight surgeons board certified in other disciplines, and senior Army aviators from the Fort Rucker area. Consultants develop and implement aeromedical policy and standards, monitor the quality of aviation medicine care, educate and consult with unit level flight surgeons, and study chronic disease and injury epidemiology in the aircrew member population. Computer specialists maintain the Aviation Epidemiology Data Register that archives history, physical, and aeromedical board information on aircrew members and aircrew member training applicants.

Special notification: Effective 12 August 1999, Class 1 (Warrant Officer) vision standards are the same as Class 1A (Commissioned Officer). This is a temporary exception to the regulation, AR 40-501, pending publication of the FY2000 version of AR 40-501. The policy is not retroactive. Warrant Officer applicants who benefit from the change in policy must submit a new flying duty medical examination with repeat eye examination. We anticipate Class 1 and Class 1A will have the same vision standards in the next publication of AR 40-501. However, in August 1999, the Aeromedical Consultant Advisory Panel proposed modifications to combined Class 1/1A visual acuity and hyperopia standards. OTSG is staffing the recommendations at this time.

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CR498E16.EXE is a self-extracting compressed file containing installation disk images for CADRISK calculator version 4.98E.16, dated 18 August 1998, 16-bit for Windows 3.1x. This version will run on most Windows 95/98/NT workstations as well. It supercedes version found on the 1998 US Army Flight Surgeon's Handbook CD-ROM.