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Amish RakeFight said:A first class medical issued on 3/1/06 or 3/31/06 will lose its first class privilieges on 9/30/06. It's still a first class medical, it just reverts to a second class for the following 6 months.
avbug said:That first class medical does NOT revert to a second class after six months. The class of medical certificate does not change. The privileges for which it is valid changes, but it is an issued certificate, much like your pilot certificate, which does not change in class six months, a year, or ten years later. Ten years later it may no longer be valid for airman privileges, but it's still a first class medical certificate.
Medical certificates do not revert from one class to another.
Amish RakeFight said:A first class medical issued on 3/1/06 or 3/31/06 will lose its first class privilieges on 9/30/06. It's still a first class medical, it just reverts to a second class for the following 6 months.
Can someone point me to where this is stated in the FAR/AIM. I am reading under 61.23
(d) Duration of a medical certificate. (1) A first-class medical certificate expires at the end of the last day of—
(i) The sixth month after the month of the date of examination shown on the certificate for operations requiring an airline transport pilot certificate;
(ii) The 12th month after the month of the date of examination shown on the certificate for operations requiring a commercial pilot certificate or an air traffic control tower operator certificate; and
(iii) The period specified in paragraph (c)(3) of this section for operations requiring a recreational pilot certificate, a private pilot certificate, a flight instructor certificate (when acting as pilot in command or a required pilot flight crewmember in operations other than glider or balloon), or a student pilot certificate.
Part (ii) is what is confusing me. It seems in instances that require a CPL the first class is good for 12 calendar months. I know I'm reading it wrong because I just got sent home from an interview for interpreting this paragraph incorrectly. I've talked to some friends that have explained it to me. But reading this paragraph is still confusing the hell out of me.
Ahhh, but in your first post, you said "reverts to a second class"...instead of "second class priviledges".You may have misread what I wrote as I said it was STILL a first class medical. Perhaps I should be more explicit. It reverts to privileges associated with a second class medical.
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Pretty simple, really. Say that your first class medical is issued on 1/1/07.
-If you're exercising the privileges of an airline transport pilot certificate, you can exercise those privileges with that medical certificate from 1/1/07 until 7/31/07 (a 6 month period).
-If you're exercising the privileges of a commercial pilot certificate, that first class medical certificate is valid from 1/1/07 until 1/31/08 (a 12 month period).
If that's what you told them, I don't see why you would have gotten sent home. That's the letter of the law.
They requested pre-interview a valid First Class Medical with First Class privledges. The way I interpreted the reg was since I don't have an ATP and I am not interviewing for a job that requires the ATP my 9 month old First Class was still valid.
It's all written very clearly on the back of the certificate. It talks about the validity of each class of certificate depending on what type of operation you are flying.Turn it over and read it.I wasn't even in the interview yet. This was about ten minutes into filling out paperwork. Pulled outside and told my First Class is expired and said I could come back in three months. They requested pre-interview a valid First Class Medical with First Class privledges. The way I interpreted the reg was since I don't have an ATP and I am not interviewing for a job that requires the ATP my 9 month old First Class was still valid. Now obviously I should have just got a new medical, but I didn't even think twice about it after reading the above reg. So I see it says it doesn't expire for 12 months but where does it talk about privledges?
Because it doesn't.Midlife I understand that I was wrong and understand what they wanted, I have stated this in the above posts. What I am looking for is clarification of 61.23. Why it is written the way it is, and why not just say a First Class Medical expires in 6 months.
Why it is written the way it is, and why not just say a First Class Medical expires in 6 months.
Hey Look Kid, Flyin' an airplane is easy. If that's all we had to know how to do it would be too easy. Gettin' thru these regs weeds out the riff-raff.![]()
'Twas meant in jest, Sir. Hopefully indicated by the 'rolleyes' symbol.If there were only a way to eliminate the Riff-Raff on flightinfo like this jackass.