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Pilot Licensing, Medical Fitness and Recency

What your private pilot licence lets you do, the paperwork that must ride with you, the medical certificate that keeps it alive, and the recency rules that decide whether you may fly today — or carry passengers.

3 units · 10 min · 14 questions

  1. 1.Your Licence and Its PaperworkThe four conditions for legally acting as a flight crew member, and the personal log the regulations require you to keep.3 min read
  2. 2.PPL Privileges and the Recency LadderWhat the private pilot licence lets you do, and the 5-year, 24-month and 6-month rules that decide whether you may exercise it — alone or with passengers.4 min read
  3. 3.Medical Certificates and Fitness to FlyWhich medical category the PPL needs, how long it lasts before and after age 40, and the rules that ground you temporarily — illness, drugs, alcohol, pregnancy and blood donation.3 min read