Airman operating under BasicMed may not hold a valid medical certificate but instead must provide for inspection a valid U.S. driver’s license as described in paragraph 6a(3). Because the airman may not have his or her logbook which contains the documentation required to comply with BasicMed readily available, the ASI may ask the airman to describe how he or she is eligible to act as PIC under BasicMed. If an airman does not understand the BasicMed eligibility requirements, or if the ASI has reason to doubt that the airman is compliant with the BasicMed requirements, the ASI may ask the airman to produce, within a reasonable length of time, their pilot logbook and certification of completion of an authorized BasicMed medical education course described in paragraph 6a(2).
IOW, why carry anything at all? The law says current, valid state driver's license is all that's required. That'd be all I presented (along with my pilot's license). Anything else just muddies the waters...
That is if you are exercising the privileges of Sport-Pilot, or operating under basic-med.
If you are operating as a private pilot with a Class I, Class II, or Class III medical, you must have the Medical Certificate "in your physical possession or readily accessible in the aircraft." ref: ?61.3(c)(1)
Exception for Basic-Med is under ?61.3(c)(2)(xii)
I'm flying under Basic Med.
I would just pull out my phone and bring up my airman certification records from:
https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/Main.aspx
That shows my BasicMed date and status. I suspect the FAA inspector would do the same.....
I just pulled mine up an it shows my pilots license and repairman certificates, it did' show my basic med.
....... it shows both my previous Class III and my current BasicMed.
Yes, the FAA airmen database seems to be inconsistent in terms of how or even if it shows medical status for a given airman. I noticed that looking up a record for a friend. It didn't show anything for him even though it shows both my previous Class III and my current BasicMed.
Also, at the bottom of the "Course Completion Certificate" (done through AOPA), there is a wallet-sized card you can cut out and put in your wallet.
That works great, until you take it out to show a friend and put it in your shirt pocket, where it stays while the shirt is washed.
I took the liberty of looking you up in the Airman Certification Database. The data is there under Medical Information, between the Personal Information block and the Certificates block. It shows that you took the BasicMed Course on 7/15/2019 and the BasicMed CMEC on the same date.
That works great, until you take it out to show a friend and put it in your shirt pocket, where it stays while the shirt is washed.
If that happens, you can go back online and copy another cert as long as it has NOT expired..... you can print as many as you want.
You carry this in your wallet as you did your medical cert.
This...and when you print out the certificate, you also get a wallet size one. I cut it out, laminated it and put it in my wallet, along with my pilot certificate.