Getting the medical overseas?
 

Strange, but my posting of earlier today has disappeard into the ether; so here we are again!

Anyway, just curious:

If you fail a JAR Class 1 medical in the UK, and then take one in another member state, say France, and pass, finish training in France and end up with a JAR ATPL issued in France, would there be any problems along the way? Presumably one could then fly for UK carriers on the French licence and medical, in the UK? After all, this is what the JAR is all about.

This leads on to another interesting question. Is there a central database for JAR licences/medicals, or is each country responsible for controlling, and recording, its own JAR licences and medicals (a la ICAO)?

but if you failed your JAR class 1 in the UK - what makes you think you will pass it in France - that is what the JAR stuff is REALLY about !