In our modular EASA world I’m able to live in Germany, have my license in the Netherlands, do my IR exam in Spain for an Austrian CAA and fly with a French IR. What I don’t understand yet is how the license-controlling CAA influences the issuance of a medical: say a foreign AME grants me a class 2 medical conforming to Part MED in that foreign country – does my local CAA have any say in this or do they simply receive the resulting paperwork which they then have to accept similar to a rating that I acquired abroad? Or is there some sort of closed loop where the AME needs an approval/medical number/final say from my local CAA before being able to do anything?
I have a class 2 medical issued by Transport Malta. My AME in the UK does the medical, then sends a copy to the DGAC in France. That’s it. The only thing different is he asks for my DGAC reference number, which he gives to them so they can cross-reference the licence and medical. The reference number varies by EASA state, but is usually your licence number or medical number. The AME has never had a response from the DGAC so we’re not sure they actually do anything with the information.
Yeah but… Malta & France are EASA aren’t they? Assuming you have an EASA PPL I wouldn’t know why your UK AME is involved or why you need to do anything wrt DGAC…?? As long as the Maltese medical has EASA on it you are a good-un…no action required.
The UK no longer recognises the EASA medical, though it did for a year after Brexit…
The requirement for a medical to be issued by the license issuer was to stop what they called medical tourism.
I have UK, EASA and FAA licences. I get all three medicals done in the same visit, in the UK (where I live). Since Brexit, a UK AME can’t issue an EASA medical, so the doctor had to get approval from an EASA state. He uses Malta because the service was best (Ireland was preferred due to shared language, but it didn’t work out). Part of the instructions is to send a copy to the state of licence issue. Hope this makes sense.
We seem to be confusing the state authorization credentials of a given AME and his/her physical location. Any AME worldwide can get an authorizations to issue medicals for any state that allows it. For example, my AME in Switzerland is authorized by the Swiss CAA to issue EASA medicals, the FAA to issue FAA medicals, and Transport Canada to issue Canadian medicals. I get all three medicals from one visit to my AME. One exam, three forms/paperwork.