the medical requirement for UK private pilot licence and national private pilot licence holders
Currently, UK PPL holders are able to fly EASA aircraft using the privileges of a LAPL. This is anticipated to change in 2018, at which point the benefits of this change in medical requirements will decrease for those pilots. However, we aim to influence EASA in considering reviewing the medical requirements for EASA Private Pilot licence holders flying EASA aircraft.
The wording means that those (the majority?) with standard EASA PPL will not benefit from this at all as its only the national licenses, not the standard EASA licenses, that are effected, and only for a maximum of 2 years - hardly the big announcement...