What has changed?
Incidentally, the CAA’s ORS4 No. 1597 seems to have somewhat relaxed the medical criteria for making a PMD to fly G-reg sub 2t aircraft.
Thank you
I’ve been flying on a PMD for several years. I just now clicked on my UK CAA link and searched for “PMD”. I got 3 pages of links, but none got me to the application form.
Their site obfuscation skills continue to improve.
Edit addition. Try:
https://www.caa.co.uk/Our-work/About-us/Doing-business-with-the-CAA/Customer-portal/?mc_cid=db7dd5d83d&mc_eid=3b066e5b7b
How do you apply for a PMD? Asking for a friend 😔
Note that the post above shows the PMD is valid with the IMCR so you can fly IFR on it in UK airspace, Class D or lower. But you need a full PPL; the IMCR cannot be used with the NPPL.
I didn’t know FIs or FEs can use the PMD…
The 2-5.7T band can’t be much used anyway, hence I asked if something happened. Some dodgy stuff in an Aztec? God forbid, never heard of such a thing!
Lies, damn lies and statistics….
Looking at what they ask, they seem to want to
The one thing that always astonishes me is that people in the CAA waste their time tinkering around rules where there is no problem – and all that based on a statistical analysis which is either utterly incompetent or deliberately misleading. As a reminder – they took a sample of 800 individuals with a PMD, 400 of which were deliberately chosen because the individuals had failed a medical. They found that 4% of these 800 had disqualifying conditions, and used that to build their argument on.
You should all make your views known, and push to preserve the existing system. The fact that some 3/4 of the UK PPL population can and is using this concession shows that it is perfectly safe.
