Side question - when I did my first medical I did a class 1 in order to ensure if I wanted to do my CPL I could, figuring at least when it lapses to a class 2 I can keep doing my PPL. Because of a poor lung volume test, they made me see a lung specialist, which between bookings etc dragged the process out another two months.
In the end the diagnosis was just a smaller than normal lung capacity probably as a result of my childhood asthma, but otherwise fine. Eventually AvMed approved it. When I got the certificate the date of commencement was from the day I first saw the DAME (some 3 months earlier), not the date CASA finally approved it (*groan*). My condition was apparently so special it was marked as "approve by CASA only" - and both the class 1 and class 2 expirations were the same date, only a one year certificate.
Has anyone else experienced this? "Special" approvals apply to both class 1 and 2 with the Class 2 being only one year (or in my case, effectively only 9 months). I don't relish the idea of having to see a lung specialist and chase approvals every year for what seems to be a fairly minor issue.