"Juan Jimenez" wrote in message
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Todd Pattist wrote in
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I disagree. "Expiration" is different from "revocation."
The latter implies affirmative action by the issuing
authority to withdraw the medical, presumably for cause.
The former does not carry that implication.

If you let it expire you did not meet the requirements to have the
medical,
so by definition it is either revoked or suspended. You can't use it. For
the purposes of the LSA that is how it can be interpreted. It is one thing
to allow a normal medical to expire, but anyone who has a special
issuance,
by definition, does not qualify for a normal medical certificate. The
letter that you are sent when you receive a special issuance medical is
VERY specific: "You are ineligible for third-class medical certification
under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR's)," blah blah...

Gee, along with just about everyone in this thread, the AOPA seems to
disagree with you too:

http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsite...rt.html#miller

"...Under the rules, if his special issuance medical certificate lapses, he
can still fly exercising the privileges of a Sport Pilot certificate with a
driver's license, providing that he self-certifies that he is medically fit
to fly."

You may be proved correct (I don't think so), but until that distant time, I
think I'll believe all the doctors and lawyers on the various AOPA panels.

-cj