UK Class Two Initial, Renewal or Revalidation

Important Information:

Before booking your appointment with your AME, you need to ensure that you have completed your medical examination application on CELLMA which is the online medical records system.

To access Cellma, you will need a CAA Customer Portal Account with access to the ‘Medical’ service. If you have not yet registered for a Customer Portal Account, please refer to our website: https://www.caa.co.uk/Our-work/About-us/Doing-business-with-the-CAA/Customer-portal/

The following Check-List may be helpful:

Things To Do / Bring with you;

• Register & fill in Questionnaire on CELLMA

• Optician Report (initial visit only) / Prescription (if wearing glasses to fly)

Link for Optician's form

https://www.caa.co.uk/publication/download/20162

• ID Passport or Driving Licence

• Copies of any Medical / GP records or reports

• The Spectacles (you wear to fly with)

• Contact Lens wearers will be required to remove them

• Be ready for an Urine Sample on arrival

UK Class Two Initial, Renewal or Revalidation

Those training for or holding a UK Part-FCL PPL (Private Pilots Licence) require a class 2 medical certificate.

You can renew your certificate up to 45 days before expiry

How to prepare

• Complete an online application form using Cellma

• Registration for new Cellma users can take up to 14 days, please allow for this.

For CELLMA page - please click here

If this is your first UK medical, please get an optician to fill in the following form and bring it with you;

https://www.caa.co.uk/publication/download/20162

What to bring on the day

• Your current passport or driver's licence

• Spectacles prescription if updated

• Copies of any relevant Specialist Medical / GP Reports

• The spectacles that you fly with (if any)

• Contact lens wearers should be prepared to remove lenses to check unaided vision

• You will need to do a urine sample when you arrive

What should I wear?

Wearing suitably loose fitting clothing reduces the need to undress to undertake the examination. Please wear a 2 piece outfit and avoid dresses. If you are over 40 and know that you are going to need an ECG then be aware that this involves attaching stickers to the chest wall.  

Therefore for all cabin crew needing an ECG it will be necessary to expose this area of the chest. For female cabin crew, please wear a sports bra or t-shirt bra with no underwire (as underwire can affect the ECG).

Please wear shorts to preserve your modesty to examine legs.

UK Class 2 certificate validity

How long a Class 2 medical certificate is valid for depends on what age you are when you are examined.

• If you are under 40, the certificate will be valid for 5 years but will not be valid past your 42nd birthday.

• If you are aged between 40 and 50 the certificate will be valid for 2 years but will not be valid past your 51st birthday.

• If you are aged 50 or over the certificate will be valid for 1 year.

The examination will take just under a hour.