Originally Posted by
WEACLRS
You and I will have to agree to disagree on this. I think most FO's still go in and renew their medical once a year as a first and then get a new one twelve months later. I know I did as did my fellow pilots.
Yes, they do, but they are not required to keep 1st class, only Captains have to keep the first class.... wait a little bit, I'm sure others will pipe in that this is a major oversight in the study.
It also assumes, as others have pointed out, that just because somebody holds an ATP with a valid 1st class medical does NOT mean they are, or ever were an airline pilot. That does not make the pool smaller, it just means at this time they are not doing so.