ktulu wrote:Pilot's License are regulated by the FAA, it's the same no matter where you go.
Under the relatively-new sport pilot rules, no medical is required. As long as you have a current valid driver's license, you can self-certify yourself as fit to fly. Of course, you fly with a lot of restrictions: only certain aircraft, and I believe day VFR only.
The idea behind the rule is that (1) if the state trusts that you're fit to drive a car, you're likely to be okay to fly, and (2) in a very real sense, every pilot self-certifies every day he flies between medicals. (As Cheshire says, if you've ever been denied a medical or had it revoked, you can't use the self-certification rule.)
ETA: Scary the common interests we're finding on this board, eh? :)