Class 2 aviation medical

[Pawelk198604]

I'm from Poland, but aviation medicine requirement are international standard

In Poland we have 3 classes, 1st class for professional pilot, 2nd class for PPL and gliders, heliotropes, 3rd class for ultralight planes, paraglide, ATC controllers

I wonder how such an examination looks, what doctors do if someone want PPL license, the medical examination for pilots is international IACO standard, so it must be similar anywhere in the world.

I don't want make pilot license yet, because i'm not have money.

I'm curious what happens if someone lie to doctor, it's unethical but does they can detect this?

[jwenting]

if you lie to the doctor and later you end up in an incident because of the condition that would have disqualified you, you lose not only your medical but your license and may well face criminal charges.

The medical requirements aren't internationally standardised, just like the requirements for the licenses themselves. That's one reason many countries have restrictions on people holding foreign licenses flying in their airspace (or at least flying aircraft registered in their country).

Prime example of this I know is Dutch law making it illegal for PPL holders with a US license to operate Dutch licensed aircraft (at least in Dutch airspace). As a result there's a lucrative rental market for US registered light aircraft in the Netherlands (US PPL costs less than half of a Dutch PPL, even taking into account the often required travel expenses to the US, and requires a much less strict physical exam as well).

Poland is a JAA member, so I guess will have the same requirements for license holders as the other member nations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Aviation_Authorities

and here's a link to the actual requirements for pilots under the JAA: http://www.jaa.nl/publications/jars/607069.pdf

[Pawelk198604]

if you lie to the doctor and later you end up in an incident because of the condition that would have disqualified you, you lose not only your medical but your license and may well face criminal charges.

The medical requirements aren't internationally standardised, just like the requirements for the licenses themselves. That's one reason many countries have restrictions on people holding foreign licenses flying in their airspace (or at least flying aircraft registered in their country).

Prime example of this I know is Dutch law making it illegal for PPL holders with a US license to operate Dutch licensed aircraft (at least in Dutch airspace). As a result there's a lucrative rental market for US registered light aircraft in the Netherlands (US PPL costs less than half of a Dutch PPL, even taking into account the often required travel expenses to the US, and requires a much less strict physical exam as well).

Poland is a JAA member, so I guess will have the same requirements for license holders as the other member nations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Aviation_Authorities

and here's a link to the actual requirements for pilots under the JAA: http://www.jaa.nl/publications/jars/607069.pdf

From what i read in your Polish Civil Aviation Office all medical all coduct under JAR-FCL 3 standard

Edited June 6, 2013 by Pawelk198604

[slam525i]

I'm a Canadian licensed private pilot (PPL = Private pilot license, or the rest of you). We have class 1 and class 3 like in the US. Class 1 is for commercial (CPL), class 3 is for private. Class 2 is only for flight engineers and ATC. Class 4 is for everything "less" than a PPL.

As jwenting said, the requirements aren't quite equal between countries, but conform mostly to the same standards. The license is ICAO, the medical is not. If you lie to the doctor, your medical is automatically invalid. For example, if you lie about having diabetes, you get into an accident, and they discover you have diabetes, you then get charged with flying without a valid medical certificate. In other words, don't do it. The various tests will likely pick it up anyway.

The proper way to go is to get an exemption, a restricted medical, or a subsequent test. For example, I can never read those colour blindness plates (Ishihara pseudo-iso-chromatic-plates). To avoid having a restricted medical certificate, I did a Farnsworth D-15 test to show I am not colour blind enough to be considered colour blind. (Colour blindness is a gradient, not a positive/negative.)

Most countries (including the JAA I think) will allow you to convert a foreign license to a local license, but they usually require you to do a separate medical exam.