PPL and Cat 4 Medical

[vanNostrum]

If a PPL  with a Night Rating currently holds a Cat 4 medical can he legally fly at night?

[Liquid Charlie]

If you could drive your car at the speed of light and turned the headlights on would they work ?  :))

[GoBoy]

PPL Requires a class 3 medical to validate it.
If you have a class 4 medical , that drops you down to a Rec Pilot Permit.
No night flying with the Rec Permit is allowed

[vanNostrum]

Thank you

[vanNostrum]

If you could drive your car at the speed of light and turned the headlights on would they work ?  :))

Only when backing up out of the driveway. >:D

[digits]

PPL Requires a class 3 medical to validate it.
If you have a class 4 medical , that drops you down to a Rec Pilot Permit.
No night flying with the Rec Permit is allowed

Do you have a CAR reference for that ? I couldn't find one. PPL needs a class 3 medical or higher. If you don't have that, you can't fly, you don't drop down to a rec permit. No flying at all.

[GoBoy]

Yes , I should have been more clear
Dropping down to Class 4 does not automatically give you a Rec Permit  TC still has to issue it to you but that is not a big deal .

[David MacRay]

Then do you hold a valid rec permit and a PPL that requires a Cat 3 to revaladate it?

[GoBoy]

YesIf you have both a Rec Permit and a PPL
You can:
a) stay with a class 4 medical which validates your Rec Permit but voids the PPL
b) obtain your class 3 medical which validates the PPL and voids the Rec Permit


All depends of which current / valid medical you are holding.
In reality , the medical certificate IS what makes you legal .
Without a current/valid medical , all your other paperwork means nothing

[vanNostrum]

Presumably a RPP could fly from Coast to Coast to Coast , over inhospitable terrain for hundred of miles, fly in 1 Mile visibility , fly a float plane into any remote lake, cross the Rockies,all of this legally however a PPL NR doing night circuits in a 150 at the local airport would be illegal. And both have the same medical.Wow.