Originally Posted by
Prop swinger
Before I could use it I would have to do a flight review, which includes verbally proving that I know FAA regulations and also do the not-a-test-but-if-you're-not-good-enough-I-won't-sign-your-logbook flight.
Perhaps a bit divergent from the primary topic but I recently flew with a flight review applicant who I decided was "not good enough". I signed his log as instruction given. After a lot of ground discussion and some more flying I signed him off for "satisfactory flight review". In US an instructor signs the log whenever they give instruction and a failed flight review is simply instruction given.
I have no problem at all with a requirement to demonstrate I am a competent pilot if I want to fly in UK on my FAA CPL. I simply do not understand the need for a class 2 medical. I have held a class 2 medical but only when needed for the commercial flying I was doing at the time.