Class One question

[zerouali]

I work in ATC and have a class one medical which is valid for 24 months, and at present is 15 months old. If I apply for a trainee pilots job, can I say I have a valid class one, bearing in mind a Pilot class one is only valid for 12 months?

thanks for your help

[Docfly]

No, you have a CAA class 1 not a JAR class 1 which you need for a pilot job, big difference.

[zerouali]

I thought the JAR requirement was only brought in this summer. Surely any pilot who got a CAA class one say, 8 months ago, will still be valid. I would have thought I'd just have to go JAR at my next renewal? Can anyone clear this up? Cheers.

[Barney]

Zerouali et al,

Yep, that's the way I understood it as well. CAA Medical is still valid, but would simply be renewed as a JAR Medical.

Barney

[Adamant]

I was led to believe that JAR doesn't yet apply to Class 1 medicals for ATC personnel and that, in recent times, the CAA has been issuing CAA (not JAR) Class 1 medical certificates to ATCOs with the endorsement "ATCO only". Is this true or not?

[This message has been edited by Adamant (edited 21 September 2000).]

[zerouali]

Cheers Barney.

Adamant, all ATCO medicals are stamped ATCO only. I presume this is because the ATCO certificate is valid for two years whereas the Pilot certificate is valid for one. Which brings me nicely round to my original question! CAA/JAA apart, as my certificate is over a year old but still stamped as valid, can I correctly tell airlines that I have a valid cetificate?

Thanks all.