I'm going to court

[redlaser]

As a commercial pilot having to do a medical every six months but because Of the coronavirus I skipped the six month requirement, and continued to fly as a private pilot, Why did the TC medical officer wait a year and a half before looking at my file?, and come up with a requirement for me to have an audiogram test.

[photofly]

How old are you?

[palebird]

28 year old girlfriend .. good luck with that. Rides are not free.

[photofly]

As a commercial pilot having to do a medical every six months but because Of the coronavirus I skipped the six month requirement, and continued to fly as a private pilot, Why did the TC medical officer wait a year and a half before looking at my file?, and come up with a requirement for me to have an audiogram test.

Because you have a category 1 medical. TC doesn’t know or care the purpose your flying, nor does flying only as a Private Pilot diminish the medical requirements to maintain the category of medical you hold. Above a certain age hearing tests are mandatory, and if you don’t have one entered within a certain time you’re flagged for follow-up. Which is what you got.

If you want to meet only category 3 medical requirements you have to write to TC and permanently surrender your ATPL or CPL.

[redlaser]

Maybe I'll just wait out the pandemic before going for a medical and let my friends fly my aircraft and I can be the passanger, They can log the hours since another ten thousand hours on my licence won't change anything,

[AirFrame]

Maybe I'll just wait out the pandemic before going for a medical and let my friends fly my aircraft and I can be the passanger, They can log the hours since another ten thousand hours on my licence won't change anything,

Make sure you add all your friends as named pilots on your insurance policy, so that on the off chance one of them groundloops it and you can't correct in time you'll at least be covered.

[valleyboy]

In all my years of flying I have never had a request from TC for an audiogram. I did one about 20 years ago because the doc suggested I get one since I had never had one in the prior 20 years+ (might have done one for my initial private license medical). Ever since then the examining doc would ask my last audiogram and I would answer, "I think about 4 years ago". Never had anything directly from TC.

So is this a new thing with TC that they were not pursuing in the past.

[redlaser]

The medical doctor conducting your medical evaluation is in a better position than transport Canada's medical officer to see if you qualify for a pilot's licence, If you don't pass the doctor conducting the medical would say so,

[Bede]

The medical doctor conducting your medical evaluation is in a better position than transport Canada's medical officer to see if you qualify for a pilot's licence, If you don't pass the doctor conducting the medical would say so,

That's not how it works. The CAME collects the data. TC decides if that meets the standards.

[redlaser]

If that were the case a pilot would have to wait to be cleared by the TC doctor before he could continue flying, In all my years as a pilot only three times did I receive a letter from the TC medical officer, one last year for an audiogram, one in 2014 and one in 1985.

[Towbar]

TC runs the show. They will make you or break you. Can assure you. To think otherwise, no...just no

[switchflicker]

The medical doctor conducting your medical evaluation is in a better position than transport Canada's medical officer to see if you qualify for a pilot's licence, If you don't pass the doctor conducting the medical would say so,

That's not how it works. The CAME collects the data. TC decides if that meets the standards.

Indeed the doctor you visit, (or used to) makes his assessment and if in his or her opinion you are good to go, will sign you off for 90 days. Within that ninety days the TC folks will decide if the doctors assessment meets the standards and that all required tests are submitted with satisfactory results. Examples of required tests are the fifty year old pilot needing an audiogram. Also the diabetic pilot needs to submit his satisfactory 'tech logs' and the pilot who suffered an 'event' needs to submit follow-up monitoring data.
So the end result of the pilot's medical is a concerted effort by the CAME and TC. Failure to satisfy either part will result in being assessed as unfit.
TC really does run the show and we know the results of picking a fight with a thunderstorm.