Luftwaffe Institute of Aviation Medicine

The Institute of Aviation Medicine Air Force ( FlMedInstLw ) Fuerstenfeldbruck was founded in 1959 and was, until 30 September 2013, the central institute for all tasks in aviation and space medicine and their border areas in the Bundeswehr. It went on in the new Center for Air and Space Medicine of the Armed Forces of October 1, 2013.

Task

The Institute served the training, continuing education and training, user-oriented science and conduct investigations of aircraft crew members through. In addition to conducting investigations, assessments, treatments, aptitude tests, and training for all branches of the military area were researched and tested at the Institute on air and raumfahrtmedizinischem, flugphysiologischem, ergonomic, flugunfallmedizinischem flight and psychological.

The Department presented its technical expertise available in the field of theoretical, applied and experimental aviation and space medicine and took the task of an Aeromedical Center ( AMC). The times of command, and official subordination of the Institute was the Surgeon General of the Air Force.

Departments

The six departments at the sites Furstenfeldbruck, Koenigsbrueck, Manching and Biickeburg were:

  • Department of ergonomics
  • Department aviation psychology
  • Department of Research, Science and education, aviation and space medicine
  • Department of Clinical Aviation Medicine
  • Department of Legal Medicine and Aviation Accident Medicine
Military branch Human factors and ergonomics Bundeswehr Technical and Airworthiness Center for Aircraft Cockpit Greding Aviation medical examiner German Navy
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