ADHD query for a LAPL

gallois wrote:

And why would your GP, cardiologist, opthamologist know less about your health and abilities than an AME who sees you once a year or the NAA medical committee who sit once every 3 months all they know of you is a bunch of medical data and doctor’s notes.

Well, it was my AME who found a condition which left me grounded for three months and which would eventually cause permanent damage or be life-threatening if left uncorrected…

In France, you can fly a UL without any medical at all, and regardless of any “psychiatric” history. IOW, no medical at all. You could get “I want to kill myself” tatooed on your forehead, walk around holding a bottle of Prozac, and you would still be legal. French airspace only.

In the UK, you have the PMD concession (valid only in the UK, or France if flying a homebuilt) but it has this restriction

which may or may not apply to the OP (“taking medication”).

Also, as always, check “Threads possibly related to this one” right below here.

You can apply for an NPPL, without any medical.

To apply for the old UK National PPL, or a UK Part FCL (formerly UK-EASA) PPL, you need a medical.

UK LAPL, I have no idea but the UK LAPL is almost useless since Brussels doesn’t recognise it outside the UK

Well, it was my AME who found a condition which left me grounded for three months and which would eventually cause permanent damage or be life-threatening if left uncorrected…

I think there is a technical name for that argument but I can’t think of it right now. If you can walk into an AME’s office, you have 2 legs, and by inspection you have 2 arms. If your eyes test out ok, you have a dick and goolies (that’s checked only on initial, or when you change an AME, and on males only), and you don’t need an ECG, or do have an ECG but your heart is working well enough for you to walk, and there is nothing else visually obvious, the AME isn’t going to find anything. If you are huge, then that may be a BMI problem.

If you want to verify/monitor your health, you have to do other things. For the heart you need at least an ECG treadmill (probably £400 plus a cardio consultation, so ~£1k). You also need to change your diet, significantly relative to the GA community.

See the link above, and do a search on “NPPL” etc here.

The NPPL privileges have changed many times, but you can fly a certified or uncertified G-reg on it.

And you can fly to France in a homebuilt – see link above. This is one reason RVs go for so much money: it is probably the best plane you can fly without a medical, and for years you needed a homebuilt even within the UK if flying on the PMD.