Basic Med - questions?

[Bob Turner]

First question: the forms have expiration dates that may or may not extend a full four years. Is your signed form still good for four years?

Second question - we all know that, to get your first BasicMed, you must have held a third class or better within ten years. So presumably the BasicMed is valid for 14 years after the expiration of your third class. Are you then ok to keep renewing the BasicMed? What happens if there is a gap?

No, I haven't looked up the second, but I figure at least it is food for thought. I will now go look that up.

On the first - I asked AOPA, and got no response. I asked twice. Nothing.

 

[Bob Turner]

Answer to second question, straight from the FAA:

Q9: Do I have to always “hold or have held a medical certificate” in the past 10 years?

A: No. There is no 10-year requirement, or a 10-year “look-back”. You only need to have held a medical certificate at any point after July 14, 2006. If you meet that provision, then you never have to hold a medical certificate again to operate under BasicMed, unless you develop one of the conditions identified in 14 CFR 68.9 that require you to get a special issuance (i.e., psychosis, epilepsy, heart replacement, etc.).