On Jul 18, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Jim Staniforth <[email protected]> wrote: > In other FAA news, the third class medical is slated to go away! > Presidential signature was on the 15th. The FAA now has a year to put it > into the regulations.
Not quite that simple. The legislation stipulates a “default” regulatory stance that’ll be adopted if the FAA doesn’t promulgate alternative overriding regulations that take effect within two years from now. From this time next year, pilots who fly on the assumption that they never will (i.e., fly on a lapsed medical using a drivers license as evidence of medical fitness) cannot be prosecuted. FAA can still, theoretically, define and issue regulations which continue to require medical standards similar to what are in force now. Once those hypothetical regulations take effect, they’ll override the fallback position in the legislation signed last week. Whether FAA will or not depends on how obstructive and control-freaky they’ll get. I suspect they won’t bother, the time for this has well and truly arrived. > Wonder if a CASA Special Pilot Licence based on an FAA Private will remain > valid. Why wouldn’t it? - mark
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