Originally Posted by
jez d
As I understand it, if the OP's initial medical is issued in Spain and at a later date he then wants to train for a further licence in the UK, the UK CAA will require the medical to first be translated into English by the AME then passed to the Spanish aviation authority for endorsement before being forwarded to the UK CAA.
Current JAA medicals are issued in English, possibly with a national language translation alongside. They are acceptable across national authorities, with the exception that the CAA used to insist that the initial Class I be done by them (whether they were on solid legal ground I don't know) and certain non-conformance issues with French medicals--which I think have been solved now.
Of course, what's going to happen post-JAA is anyone's guess.
