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Let me get this right. Your friend has held an FAA PPL, with FAA medicals, for all that time, and been operating N-reg planes, which the CAA ordinarily would not even know were in the UK.
But your friend also kept a UK or JAR PPL and he failed the medical for that. Did he keep that so he could fly G-reg planes outside the UK? He could have flown G-reg within the UK on his FAA license. Maybe he had an IMC Rating. Then when he failed his CAA medical, his AME (who else, unless he told somebody who doesn't like him) told the CAA "this man is continuing to fly on his FAA license"? But it took the CAA a few years to discover it / get around to it?
Depending on exactly why your friend failed, this could have interesting implications. It could be used to ground every N-reg who at some time failed his CAA medical. However you can legitimately fail your CAA medical and still fly on the NPPL.
Or it could be irrelevant to this debate, if e.g. he failed his CAA medical on something which he was required to notify the FAA doctor of.
Last edited by IO540; 24th March 2004 at 08:31.