Instructor and student currency under Part-FCL
Part-FCL governs the licences, ratings and recency a pilot or instructor must hold to exercise a privilege, and Part-MED the medical certificate behind it. The hard part for a school is not the rule but knowing, at the moment of booking, whether the privilege is still valid. FlyerOS holds licences, ratings, medicals and recency as structured data with expiry dates, and the schedule reads them: it refuses to book someone for something they are not currently licensed, rated or current to do, and says why.
What Part-FCL asks of the school
- A pilot or instructor holds the licence, rating and recency for the privilege being exercised.
- A valid Part-MED medical certificate is held for the operation.
- Instructor privileges and their limitations are respected on each booking.
- A medical or rating that lapses mid-course invalidates the affected privilege from that date.
FlyerOS helps you operate your approved or declared procedures. It does not itself confer certification or approval, and it is not legal or regulatory advice. The authority named here is the current reference; always work from the regulation itself.
How FlyerOS supports it
Expiry dates, not certificate scans
Licences, ratings, medicals and instructor privileges are structured data with dates the schedule reads, not a wall of scans in a folder.
A lapsed privilege blocks the booking
A booking that would use a lapsed medical, rating or recency is refused before anyone drives to the airfield, with the reason shown.
Evaluated at the scheduled instant
A medical that expires mid-course fails the future solo it would have invalidated, because eligibility is checked for the time of the flight.
Questions schools ask
- Does FlyerOS check pilot licences automatically?
- It holds each person’s licences, ratings, medicals and recency as dated records and evaluates them on every booking. It does not verify a licence with the CAA; you record what the person holds and the system enforces it.
- What happens when a medical expires part-way through a course?
- Any future booking that depends on the medical, such as a solo, fails from the expiry date, before the day of the flight, so it surfaces early rather than at the aircraft.
- Can an instructor be booked outside their privileges?
- No. The schedule refuses a booking that would exceed an instructor’s current privileges or limitations, with a plain-English reason.