Class 1 Validity
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Class 1 Validity
I asked this question a couple of months ago and didn't get any answers, so I'm going to try again.
I have a Class 2 medical, valid for a year, which runs out in January 2001. In July this year, having decided to do a CPL(H), I went to Gatwick to make sure I would be able to get a Class 1; I did, it is valid for 6 months, and also runs out in January 2001.
I will not actually need a Class 1 for at least a year, probably longer. It would be cheaper to renew my class 2 for another year, and renew the Class 1 when I get my CPL and need to. But can I do that, or will it mean I have to go back to Gatwick for another initial Class 1? With the old CAA medicals, apparently that was fine; you could leave it for up to two years. With JAR, no-one seems to know. I asked at Gatwick, and the CAA didn't seem certain!
Does anyone know the answer or know where I can find out; otherwise I'll have to renew my class 1 anyway, expensively and possibly unnecessarily.
I have a Class 2 medical, valid for a year, which runs out in January 2001. In July this year, having decided to do a CPL(H), I went to Gatwick to make sure I would be able to get a Class 1; I did, it is valid for 6 months, and also runs out in January 2001.
I will not actually need a Class 1 for at least a year, probably longer. It would be cheaper to renew my class 2 for another year, and renew the Class 1 when I get my CPL and need to. But can I do that, or will it mean I have to go back to Gatwick for another initial Class 1? With the old CAA medicals, apparently that was fine; you could leave it for up to two years. With JAR, no-one seems to know. I asked at Gatwick, and the CAA didn't seem certain!
Does anyone know the answer or know where I can find out; otherwise I'll have to renew my class 1 anyway, expensively and possibly unnecessarily.
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Mainly because it's easier to renew a medical certificate than to obtain one under the 'initial issue' procedures. If you had paid a fortune for commercial flying training and then discovered that you couldn't renew your Class 1 medical certificate........?
The rules are vague and I don't know what CAA policy is, but the following extract from JAR suggests to me that the CAA could ask you to undergo a full 'initial issue' examination at Gatwick to renew a lapsed Class 1 medical :-
"If a licence holder allows his certificate to expire by more than 90 days but less than two years, renewal shall require the prescribed standard or extended examination to be performed at an AMC, or by an AME at the discretion of the AMS"
Good luch whatever you do!
The rules are vague and I don't know what CAA policy is, but the following extract from JAR suggests to me that the CAA could ask you to undergo a full 'initial issue' examination at Gatwick to renew a lapsed Class 1 medical :-
"If a licence holder allows his certificate to expire by more than 90 days but less than two years, renewal shall require the prescribed standard or extended examination to be performed at an AMC, or by an AME at the discretion of the AMS"
Good luch whatever you do!
Many thanks.
