"Some Guy" wrote in message
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"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message

Some Guys just need to get over it.

There's nothing to get over. You can construct all the semantic
jungle-gyms
you want, but that does not alter the fact that the FAA does not issue
pilot
licenses. They issue pilot certificates, and when current and qualified,
you are allowed to "...exercise the privileges of..." that certificate..
The only context regarding airmen in which I've seen the FAA use the word
license is in reference to foreign licenses.

Ho Hum.
The following sentence is copied from DOT/FAA/AM-02/6 (Page 4):
"The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is responsible for the medical
certification of all civilian airmen in the United States. Civil aviators
must hold an FAA pilot's license and maintain a current medical certificate
of the appropriate class to legally perform duties associated with that
class of certificate."

From a media release on http://apo.faa.gov/
" Olcott's aviation credentials include an airline transport pilot's
license,multi-engine...."

From:http://www.faa.gov/ats/aat/IFIM/ifimfaqa086.htm: "You may fly from the
U.S. to another country using your license for that country if the aircraft
is registered in the other country. If the aircraft is registered in the
U.S., you must have a U.S. license to fly while still in the U.S. You would
also need a commercial license and a U.S. instrument rating if you were
using instruments."

And, http://www.faa.gov/apa/pr/pr.cfm?id=1035
(Count how many times the FAA uses license in that one!)

....still another FAA document http://www.faa.gov/apa/PR/pr.cfm?id=604:
"A highlight of the event includes an opportunity for students to speak with
some of aviation's real pioneers -- Bill Broadwater, a Tuskegee Airman and a
retired FAA controller and Christopher Hart, FAA's Assistant Administrator
for System Safety. Hart also is a great nephew of James Herman Banning, the
first African American to receive a pilot's license in the United States."

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I apologize to the community for abusing your good will, should you have any
left. I shall refrain from any further posting on this subject.