Peter wrote:
Why not just have a PPL which downgrades to LAPL privileges if you have an LAPL medical?
The use of a PPL with LAPL privileges should be no problem, but there is a discussion if you can revalidate your class rating without a class 2 medical.
there is a discussion if you can revalidate your class rating without a class 2 medical.
Why not, if the FI is PIC. You should need a medical at all. No idea whether this works in practice; some papers you cannot apply for (like the EASA CPL, the UK PPL, the UK national PPL) unless you hold a current medical.
Peter wrote:
there is a discussion if you can revalidate your class rating without a class 2 medical.Why not, if the FI is PIC. You should need a medical at all. No idea whether this works in practice; some papers you cannot apply for (like the EASA CPL, the UK PPL, the UK national PPL) unless you hold a current medical.
To my knowledge there is no consent between the 16 Authorities how to interpret the regulations about it. They require the application form for revalidation and a copy of the license and medical. The argument is that, as holder of a LAPL medical, only LAPL privileges apply. Because a LAPL contains no class rating according to FCL.740, you can’t revalidate without class 2 for the reason that class ratings apply only for PPL and up.
I think the typical german bueraucrat requires a clarification that a class rating has nothing to to with the executed privileges.
sw1969 wrote:
but there is a discussion if you can revalidate your class rating without a class 2 medical.
Yes, that’s a real trap. Revalidation has to be done with a valid class 2 medical. I didn’t know about that in the beginning, but by coincidence my medical (the second year with LAPL privileges) was up in January and my PPL revalidation in May the same year, so it was always OK. Others have been not so lucky.
