Medical submitted Dec 11. Medical certificate received Jan 7. Medical dated Dec 1. Dudded out of 6 weeks of validity.
Rang to enquire about the medical on Dec 23. Was told it was waiting payment. The funny thing is that I watched the DAME fax my signed credit card authorisation to CASA on Dec 11.
It took several phonecalls and emails to get the certificate. Each time I was told there was no problem with my medical and it was ready to mail. Each time was a different excuse with a new promise. Each time the promise was broken. This was for a class 1 medical. Lucky I don't depend on my CPL for a living!
My ASIC has fallen due at the same time as the medical. For some idiotic reason I decided to do a class 1 medical instead of the class 2 I've done for the last 1 or 2 renewals and in the meantime I've crossed one of the age thresholds for additional tests. I reckon the combined exercise has pretty much burnt $1k.