I don't know the answer, but since you guys aren't in a flight status, does the physical really expire? Sure a year is a long time, but it seems there would be more adminstrative flexibility with it.
Thats more or less what the doc told me. The physical doesn't expire, but the piece of paper in the back that has his signature on it and is last thing he fills out during the physical does have a date and has to be renewed.