How up-to-date is the FAA Airmen Registry?

Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".

How current is the airmen database?
If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Ekim.

In article , Ekim
wrote:

Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".

How current is the airmen database?
If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?

Maybe... maybe not.
If the certificate holder elected to opt out, the information will
never appear to the public.

My understanding is that "opt out" means they won't give your name & address
to vendors. It'll still be listed in the registry AFAIK.

"EDR" wrote in message
...
In article , Ekim
wrote:

Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".

How current is the airmen database?
If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?

Maybe... maybe not.
If the certificate holder elected to opt out, the information will
never appear to the public.

In article , Joe
Johnson wrote:

My understanding is that "opt out" means they won't give your name & address
to vendors. It'll still be listed in the registry AFAIK.

You are correct. I just did a search on myself.
It gives name, certificates, medical.
Does anyone know what DOI stands for?

Joe Johnson wrote:

Does anyone know what DOI stands for?

Date Of Issuance.

"Joe Johnson" wrote in message om...
My understanding is that "opt out" means they won't give your name & address
to vendors. It'll still be listed in the registry AFAIK.

Actually, "opt out" is a real crock. There's no guarantee that the FAA takes any
special action on opt out requests (although they do sometimes).

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:09:29 -0500, "Ron Natalie"
wrote:


"Joe Johnson" wrote in message om...
My understanding is that "opt out" means they won't give your name & address
to vendors. It'll still be listed in the registry AFAIK.

Actually, "opt out" is a real crock. There's no guarantee that the FAA takes any
special action on opt out requests (although they do sometimes).

I emailed them according to their instructions for opting out the day
I found my address online. I received this response:

Mr. Perkins,

I have input a code into your airman record which will indicate that you do not wish to have your address made available to the general public.

Your address will be removed from the Active Airmen Database. The website is updated each federal work day at midnight and the downloadable file is updated monthly.


The Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, in addition to other statutory requirements, requires us to make airmen CERTIFICATE information available to the public.


Regards,

Judy Johnson, AFS-760

Based on that, I'd have to say that I can expect my address to
disappear from FAA-provided lists within 40 days. Not that King and
Sporty's, or their agents, won't correlate my full name and cert
number with the list they've *already* purchased, but there you are.

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card

"Robert Perkins" wrote in message ...
Actually, "opt out" is a real crock. There's no guarantee that the FAA takes any
special action on opt out requests (although they do sometimes).

I emailed them according to their instructions for opting out the day
I found my address online. I received this response:

Mr. Perkins,

I have input a code into your airman record which will indicate that you do not wish to have your address made available to the
general public.

Yes, I've done that too, but that's not what the ACT says. The act says I can chose to be completely
removed from the public dissemintation.



The Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, in addition to other statutory'
requirements, requires us to make airmen CERTIFICATE information available to the public.


The above is complete bull**** and indicative of the stupidity and corruption inherent in the
FAA. There is NO requirement that htey make the pilot information available (and many pilots
are omitted). AIR-21 says EXACTLY the opposite from what they are espousing. It specifically
says that the information must be omitted at the request of the pilot. FURTHERMORE, the
information released is in exceess of what AIR-21 specifically allows. Note that makes the
FAA in violation of the privacy act. The wording in AIR-21 provides a specific necessary
exemption for them.

On a recent change to the restrictions on my medical it showed up within a
week.
But don't count on it as being up to date all the time.
I have friends that have had their updates take as long as 6 months.

"Ekim" wrote in message
om...
Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".

How current is the airmen database?
If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Ekim.

It usually takes about 90 days to show up. That has been my own
experience at least.

In article , Ekim
wrote:

Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".

How current is the airmen database?
If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Ekim.