Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
If we assume the pilot’s medical certificate had expired, the outcome is that the pilot was not lawfully permitted to exercise the privileges of his licence. That’s not the same as the pilot’s licence being invalid.
Noit the same as the pilot being medically unfit. Are you saying, JM, that the expiry of a medical certificae automatically results in the certificate holder being unfit?
Not at all. You need 2 bits to have a valid licence. One is the medical. Without taking the time to research the rules I’ll use the word valid and accept that it might not be the appropriate word. If he didn’t have a medical he couldn’t legally fly, that’s the point.