Medical changes to CAA PPL.
CAA Official Record Series 4 No. 689 announces changes to the medical requirement to some PPLs.
Seems that a GP declaration (as per the NPPL) will do for the old CAA (non JAR) PPL.
What the publication fails to mention is if any restrictions apply as they do to the NPPL SSEA rating. Can one now fly abroad on this arrangement?
Also, the exemption expires on 30th June 2009. If this exemption is not renewed in a timely manner (as it wasnt in the saga over the microlight exemption of some years ago) it could be that pilots may not be legal at the end of June 2009 if they chose to go down this route.
Why put a limit to this exemption that really requires the general public to check that the CAA have extended it so that we all stay legal?
I'm getting to the point with all these changes that one day I'll find myself illegal purely that I didnt understand or know about of all these changes.