Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:46 pm
#1831453
nickwilcock wrote in the OSR4 No,1471 thread:
"I asked the CAA about this and was assured that the 'sub 2000 kg' was a medical alleviation applicable to national licence holders (not Part-FCL) and the non-Part 21 restriction was a licensing restriction rather than a medical one.
So when the Part 21 restriction was alleviated under ORS4 No.1417 derogation, it mean that national licence holders using 'sub 2000 kg' PMD terms would thenceforth be able to use the same terms on Part 21 aeroplanes and/or TMGs"
In response to these comments, which are probably more relevant to this thread, I have had a closer look at the new online PMD, and I am even more confused!
At the start, you are asked to tick one or more licence types.
However, it does not seem to matter which or how many licence types you tick. You are still asked at the end to sign up to the full, confusingly worded, medical requirements needed to fly aircraft less than 5700kg MTOM.
The only other option is to withdraw a previously submitted declaration.
There is no mention in the actual declaration of the no greater than 2000kg alleviation even if you only tick National Private Pilot Licence (NPPL) or UK Private Pilot Licence (UK PPL).
And I cannot understand why, for example, you can tick either UK Part-FCL LAPL to fly Part 21 aircraft or UK Part-FCL to fly npn-Part 21 aircraft when it does not make any difference. At the moment, I believe (although I hope I am wrong, at least for PMDs made before Brexit) that you cannot fly ANY aircraft in the UK on a UK issued LAPL using the 2000kg alleviation, even though the LAPL only allows you to fly aircraft no greater than 2000kg!
I am still hoping that the CAA/DfT will clear up this mess up before leisure flying is permitted again.