Title: Describe privileges and limitations of medical certificates.
Course: Aircraft Pilot Training I (20053-I) > Section: Exploring Regulations

Description should include the following:

- There are three classes of medical certificates. The class of certificate needed depends on the type of flying the pilot plans to perform.
- A third-class medical certificate is required for a private or recreational pilot certificate. It is valid for five years for those individuals who have not reached the age of forty; otherwise it is valid for two years. A commercial pilot certificate requires at least a second-class medical certificate, which is valid for one year. First-class medical certificates are required for airline transport pilots and are valid for one year if the airman is forty or younger; forty and older it is valid for six months.

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