On 09/20/09 22:28, Mike Ash wrote:
As to why you'd call it someone else, if it looks like a license, walks
like a license, and waddles like a license, I'm going to call it a
"license". It's easier to say and much more widely understood. Do you
refer to your car as a "motor vehicle"? That's what the authority calls
it, after all....


Hmmm. I've referred to my certificate as a certificate to aviation-
knowledgeable and non-aviation-knowledgeable folks alike and have
never been asked "what is a certificate".

Even though I assume some didn't know that what we have is called
a certificate, none found it necessary to ask me to clarify what I
was referring to.

Perhaps I just run in smaller circles :-)

Best Regards,


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Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane, USUA Ultralight Pilot
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA