On Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 9:47:40 AM UTC-6, Robert Ballou wrote:
On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 4:06:09 PM UTC-7, N97MT wrote:
Yup. Based on my experience with my daughter in IACRA almost two years ago, under the old rules, it was pretty clear to me that this would happen. See RAS post "New Student Pilot certificates".

All they need to do is change the IACRA app to allow Student Pilot application dates up to x number of days before first solo and endorse the certificate "NOT VALID UNTIL (age eligibility date)".

Curious to hear what the actual turnaround time will be. FAA says 3 weeks. I don't believe it yet.

Your idea is a good one ("Not valid until . . ."). It seems to me that the solution is an easy one. The requirements for solo are student pilot certificate in hand (Not valid until . . .), 14 years of age or older, self certifying medical, AND A CFIG ENDORSEMENT. The student must have all 4 to solo. I sense this may be a control issue and the FAA not trusting the CFI's with the responsibility and authority they earned. What is not so simple is to get the FAA to go along with this so the certificates can be processed in time for that 14th birthday celebration.

Robert. I think you have it reversed, the solution is simple, not easy. Like weight loss, just eat less and exercise more, simple, but not easy;^).



So the FAA has IACRA. Presumably it resulted from a competitive bid contract and had multiple revisions in the specification and rewrites. Changing the student application dates for both glider and power students in the database schema is probably doable at a co$t. I see the rule and a correction were published in the Federal Register in January and February. See
https://www.federalregister.gov/arti...n-requirements.

Fund$ for modifications and oversights may or may not be in the budget. The SSA is hot on the heels of the AOPA request. I hope that it is seen as important to those who had oversight and lacked the insight to include this in the initial schema. I hope both are seen as the same request, just different ages and categories. We'll see. I'm hoping for a positive outcome.

Frank Whiteley