Activity What You Need To Know
Traveling by Air You can safely use your System at all times while
on an aircraft.
• The Reader is classed as a Medical-Portable
Electronic Device (M-PED) that meets all required
M-PED emission standards for safe use onboard
an aircraft: RTCA/DO160, Section 21, Category M.
Please note though that you must still comply
with any requests from the ight crew to not
scan your Sensor due to the wireless connection
between the Reader and the Sensor. You will still
be able to do a blood glucose test by inserting a
strip into the Reader as this does not turn on the
wireless connection.
• Some airport full-body scanners include x-ray or
millimeter radio-wave, which you cannot expose
your System to. The eect of these scanners
has not been evaluated and the exposure may
damage the System or cause inaccurate results.
To avoid removing your System, you may request
another type of screening. If you do choose to go
through a full-body scanner, you must remove
your Sensor.
Activity What You Need To Know
Traveling by Air
(cont.)
• The System can be exposed to common
electrostatic (ESD) and electromagnetic
interference (EMI), including airport metal
detectors. You can keep your Reader on while
going through these.
Note: If you are changing time zones, you can
change the time and date settings on the Reader
by touching the Settings symbol
from the
Home Screen, then Time & Date. Changing the
time and date aects the graphs and statistics.
The
symbol may appear on your glucose
graph indicating the Reader time was changed.
Gaps in the graph may result or glucose readings
may be hidden.
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