How long before the card comes?

"James M. Knox" wrote in message ...
"Ron Natalie" wrote in
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Your DE or the local FSDO can give you a new temporary. Mine was
within a few days of expiring and the FSDO just gave me a new
(temporary) one. At the time it evidently was quite a common request.
My permanent one did actually show up before the original 120 days
were up, but just barely.

Wasn't that simple in my case. They won't send out a temporary certificate
just on the basis of my say-so on the telephone. Remember, neither the
FSDO nor OKC has any record of me taking the checkride! Nor, it now turns
out, does my DE. [At least he remembers it.]

Not on the phone. I walked into the FSDO with my temporary certificate and
they extended it for me.

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message om...
"James M. Knox" wrote in message ...
"Ron Natalie" wrote in
m:

Your DE or the local FSDO can give you a new temporary. Mine was
within a few days of expiring and the FSDO just gave me a new
(temporary) one. At the time it evidently was quite a common request.
My permanent one did actually show up before the original 120 days
were up, but just barely.

Wasn't that simple in my case. They won't send out a temporary certificate
just on the basis of my say-so on the telephone. Remember, neither the
FSDO nor OKC has any record of me taking the checkride! Nor, it now turns
out, does my DE. [At least he remembers it.]

Not on the phone. I walked into the FSDO with my temporary certificate and
they extended it for me.


Just so people don't get disappointed, you don't just "walk in" a FSDO
anymore since "9-11". You must call and get an appointment. Granted, there
are some that may let you in but not all of them.

HAPPY NEW YEAR,

Skyking

"Skyking" wrote in message om...
Just so people don't get disappointed, you don't just "walk in" a FSDO
anymore since "9-11". You must call and get an appointment. Granted, there
are some that may let you in but not all of them.

Actually, the Washington FSDO (at Dulles) despite the "official pronouncement"
that you need an appointment, will meet you in the lobby of their office for simple
things even without an appointment. I had to go there and get a new certificate
when getting rectal-probed to fly into my home airport because my hair color was
listed differently on my medical than on my pilot certificate. To their credit, the
FSDO reissued a corrected certificate with a minimal amount of hassle.