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Amongst these threads have been several historical complaints about delays from the DVLA but not from me.
My licence is due for renewal in June this year, including a C1 for the ancients needing a medical to drive heavier vehicles..
Last Monday I posted my forms after a medical on the preceding Saturday. My new driving licence arrived while we were in Peterborough, is this a record?
I would also like to mention that I had a £50 private medical, carried out in a hotel in Luton. At first I thought they could be a bit shifty but in fact it was carried out with all the thoroughness I would expect from my own Doctor who has ceased doing them due to overwork.
 
rosalan said:
Amongst these threads have been several historical complaints about delays from the DVLA but not from me.
My licence is due for renewal in June this year, including a C1 for the ancients needing a medical to drive heavier vehicles..
Last Monday I posted my forms after a medical on the preceding Saturday. My new driving licence arrived while we were in Peterborough, is this a record?
I would also like to mention that I had a £50 private medical, carried out in a hotel in Luton. At first I thought they could be a bit shifty but in fact it was carried out with all the thoroughness I would expect from my own Doctor who has ceased doing them due to overwork.
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I needed my first medical to collect my current mh. I had my 70th birthday, the medical, sent off for & received the licence, and collected the mh within an 8 day period. DVLA did me proud too.
 
Hope it works well for January when we both need to renew C1, hopefully John's will be easier this year, unless the rules have changed again.
 
Maybe due in June but what date did the new one start?

Someone posted a thread about this a few days ago saying their renewed licence started the date it was processed, not the date it was due
 
"You lucky People".!! (was that Arthur Askey?). Mine went off over 4 weeks ago Recorded delivery, STILL WAITING. DVLA. "NOT fit for purpose". and that is as polite as I can make it!.

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PeteH said:
"You lucky People".!! (was that Arthur Askey?). Mine went off over 4 weeks ago Recorded delivery, STILL WAITING. DVLA. "NOT fit for purpose". and that is as polite as I can make it!.
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No it was Tommy Trinder ,Arthur Askey was famous for" Hello Playmates"(y)
 
Which forms are required. I know about D4 - which other form is needed - is it D2?

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Four months and still waiting. When I phone to ask how is going, told I'm on a list.
 
The DVLA say that your licence is valid from the time you post a successful medical report, I believe.
Based upon my experiences (I'm on my third C1/D1) unless there are special circumstances, the returns are quick. However on an occasion when I was not allowed to drive for six months, they still sent me my full licence, even though on that occasion I had not yet had my medical. They did ask for it back when I told them but it got stuck in my wallet. Finally on the very day my sixth month ban ended, I got a letter from the DVLA saying that I could use my licence now; they had not forgotten. For the record, I did not cheat and my ban followed a bang to my head.
 
I’ve been waitin two weeks for mine to come, although to be fair I was away in Newquay for a fortnight when mine ran out :):):)
 
rickwiggans said:
Which forms are required. I know about D4 - which other form is needed - is it D2?
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Yes, D2 is the application to renew and D4 is the medical form needed to renew C1 and above, when 70 or over.

D4 can be downloaded from the website but D2 cannot- something about where the photograph is attached, and has to be applied for - to Swansea, online or collected from a Post Office, if they have some.

Geoff

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if you are free of any medical conditions, it seems their response is reasonably prompt, but in my case (I have a pacemaker,fitted 18 years ago, no problems since) they take forever. My application was in on November 5th last year, coming up to 6 months now, still no licence!
 
:mad:. Grrrrrrr!. NOW the daft buggers have returned my application. because the MHS GOS-2 Form is not valid on it`s own, (which they previously accepted), but NOW has to be transferred to the D4 by the Optician and signed! MORE delay.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:. That place is no more that a retirement home for NUMPTIES!!
 
Every pilot that died in flight had a VALID medical, including the Staines Trident when the two schoolboys with him were too scared of the Martinet Captain that they let him crash it with all on board Dying shortly after him. Medicals prove very little just provide a nice little earner.
 
GWAYGWAY said:
Every pilot that died in flight had a VALID medical, including the Staines Trident when the two schoolboys with him were too scared of the Martinet Captain that they let him crash it with all on board Dying shortly after him. Medicals prove very little just provide a nice little earner.
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I am too flabbergasted by that post to reply now, but I will do so in due course.

Meanwhile I invite you to re-read the Staines accident AAIB Report.

Geoff
 
I signed my own medical to fly in the UK (NPPL), and my GP signed my medical to fly in Europe (LAPL), but the DVLA have seen fit to refer my application for a driving licence renewal to some anonymous doctor. Based on above experiences I could be in for a long wait. I can drive meanwhile, but only in the UK, so I guess my September tunnel booking is at risk.

I suppose I cannot even downsize and apply for an “ordinary” license renewal with a renewal in the pipeline, or can I?
 
good luck with the DVLA, if you have any medical issues at all, you could be in for a long wait. I applied on Nov 5th, still waiting. Apparently there is a "backlog" with their own medical assessment team who need to assess you after they receive all relevant info from your own Doctors as well as the 50 quid doctor's examination result (D4)
 
nicholsong said:
I am too flabbergasted by that post to reply now, but I will do so in due course.

Meanwhile I invite you to re-read the Staines accident AAIB Report.

Geoff
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GWAYGWAY said:
Every pilot that died in flight had a VALID medical, including the Staines Trident when the two schoolboys with him were too scared of the Martinet Captain that they let him crash it with all on board Dying shortly after him. Medicals prove very little just provide a nice little earner.
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The only reason for replying now is that this thread has just been reactivated and I notice that I failed to answer your post later as I promised.

The primary cause of that accident was the P2 pilot in the RH seat wrongly re-tracted the Leading edge slats instead of the Trailing Edge flaps, thus inducing an aerodynamic stall. On a high-tailed aircraft like the Trident it is impossible to recover from this. A similar accident occurred to 'Cats eyes' Cunningham when he was test flying the Trident over East Anglia.

If the reason you introduced this accident was connected with part of the AAIB report that mentioned that Captain Stan Keys suffered a heart attack that part emphasised that it was not known at what point that occurred - I might have had one if stalled and descending at 1500fpm.

On more modern designs e.g. the Boeing 737 that I flew the operation of the LE Slats is coordinated with that of the Flaps and does not have a separate operating lever. Thus it is impossible to retract them prematurely.

The AAIB report did not attribute any medical condition as a cause or partial cause of the crash.

All the talk at the time of Pilots industrial dispute and attitudes do not deflect from the fact that retracting the LE Slats prematurely causes a stall.

I was in the BEA Crew Room in the Queen's Building at Heathrow 1/2 hour after the crash. Deathly hush.

Geoff
 
NotHom said:
Please note the addendum at the bottom of this link.
Doctors on Wheels are not welcome at DVLA

www.gov.uk

Medical examination report for a lorry or bus driving licence (D4)

A doctor will need to complete this form if you are applying for a lorry or bus driving licence.
www.gov.uk www.gov.uk
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That is a real problem to many like me who used them last time.

Having said that, at the time I was surprised that they just asked the questions and recorded my answers on the form without any check at all that I was telling the truth. Eyesight and blood pressure were the only two things they checked for themselves.

I wonder what other cheap providers like D4drivers do to verify answers. Anybody know?
 
Interesting to see that the DVLA are no longer accepting medicals from Doctors on Wheels. Having used them in the past when my Doctor did not do the medicals I am wondering where you go for a medical if your own Doctor doesn't do them as after contacting other Doctors in my area they said they would only take their own patients.

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peterc10 said:
That is a real problem to many like me who used them last time.

Having said that, at the time I was surprised that they just asked the questions and recorded my answers on the form without any check at all that I was telling the truth. Eyesight and blood pressure were the only two things they checked for themselves.

I wonder what other cheap providers like D4drivers do to verify answers. Anybody know?
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My medical was done on 15th June - by Doctors on Wheels! Licence also dated 19th June, when it was processed rather than the renewal date of 1st July. I sent the application by First Class Recorded Delivery on 17th June.

Don't think I'll bother complaining.....................
 
I don’t know whether it applies to “our licences” but D4Drivers have said they will honour DOW bookings for £45.

In my former life I was an old HGV driver ?
 
peterc10 said:
That is a real problem to many like me who used them last time.

Having said that, at the time I was surprised that they just asked the questions and recorded my answers on the form without any check at all that I was telling the truth. Eyesight and blood pressure were the only two things they checked for themselves.

I wonder what other cheap providers like D4drivers do to verify answers. Anybody know?
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it's probably academic as to what is on the D4drivers form, because once received by the DVLA they then write to your own doctor, and where appropriate your consultant for more information, which they then pass on to their own assessment team for evaluation.
 
john lillie said:
it's probably academic as to what is on the D4drivers form, because once received by the DVLA they then write to your own doctor, and where appropriate your consultant for more information, which they then pass on to their own assessment team for evaluation.
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I think you will find that that only happens if the form throws up some medical problems with the answers. They didn't have time to write to my GP and get his reply in the period between me sending the form and them sending back my new licence. And they certainly could not have passed it onto their assessment team, who are reported to have a long backlog in carrying out evaluations. And I do not have a consultant.
 
I did say in earlier post that medical issues throw up delays,the lucky healthy ones usually get licence back in days!

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