FAA run-around

Here's the URL for the form they want. I just mailed one off for a new cert.
It is the same form just a different address.

http://registry.faa.gov/docs/8060-56.pdf




"Slav Inger" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

Been trying to get my medical file from the FAA (my 3-rd class is coming
up
for renewal and I don't remember what I put on the application 3 years
ago).
I searched the FAA's website and didn't find any official forms for
requesting this info, all they seem to require is a "signed statement".
So
I typed up an informal letter describing my request, signed it, and sent
it
per instructions I got by listening to the voice recording. The FAA sent
me
a response saying that they need a _signed_ statement (the word "signed"
is
bolded) and that computer generated signature isn't acceptable. That
makes
sense, except that my signature wasn't computer generated. So the
question
is, what is it that the FAA really wants and in what format, I guess I
wasn't clear on this point.

Thanks.

- Slav Inger
- PP ASEL IA

Slav Inger wrote:

I wrote basically the same letter (minus the "authorizes you" part). So,
what should be my course of action?

Send it again. This time, pay for receipt confirmation. Alternately, you
could get on the hpone and argue with them, but I've rarely found this
to be productive.

George Patterson
They say that nothing's certain except death and taxes. The thing is,
death doesn't get worse every time Congress goes into session.
Will Rogers

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:21:56 -0400, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:

Alternately, you could get on the hpone and argue
with them, but I've rarely found thisto be productive.

My experience has been, that it is difficult to get a live FAA person
on the phone. Use of e-mail seems to work better:

wrote in message ...
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:21:56 -0400, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:

Alternately, you could get on the hpone and argue
with them, but I've rarely found thisto be productive.

My experience has been, that it is difficult to get a live FAA person
on the phone. Use of e-mail seems to work better:


Actually, after a brief bout of music-on-hold you can get a clerk who can look
up your records and tell you where it sits (like, have they received the stuff
your doctor sent in, etc...) They can't do much, but I suspect they might
be able to order copies for you.

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:10:09 -0400, "Ron Natalie"
wrote:

Actually, after a brief bout of music-on-hold you can get a clerk who can look
up your records and tell you where it sits (like, have they received the stuff
your doctor sent in, etc...) They can't do much, but I suspect they might
be able to order copies for you.

That was my (one) experience. I hadn't received my certificate in the
mail and the temporary was running out. I called, they had sent it to
the wrong address. They fixed the address, faxed a new temporary, and
mailed a certificate. Time on the phone was minimal.

Ricky

In article , Steve Foley wrote:
Use a blue pen to sign it.

I wonder what happens if one uses a red pen or something blatantly
eye-catching and slightly non-conventional :-)

Although, in the infinite wisdom of bureaucrats, they'd most likely find
some other rule to throw at one requiring another trip through the hoops.

-Dan

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:33:11 +0000 (UTC), Dan Foster
wrote:

In article , Steve Foley wrote:
Use a blue pen to sign it.

Last I heard they require either blue or black.


I wonder what happens if one uses a red pen or something blatantly
eye-catching and slightly non-conventional :-)

I think one of the reasons is that RED and possibly green do not show
up when the documents are copied on one of the old photocopiers.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)


Although, in the infinite wisdom of bureaucrats, they'd most likely find
some other rule to throw at one requiring another trip through the hoops.

-Dan

In article , Roger Halstead wrote:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:33:11 +0000 (UTC), Dan Foster
wrote:

In article , Steve Foley wrote:
Use a blue pen to sign it.

Last I heard they require either blue or black.

I wonder what happens if one uses a red pen or something blatantly
eye-catching and slightly non-conventional :-)

I think one of the reasons is that RED and possibly green do not show
up when the documents are copied on one of the old photocopiers.

Wonder if it would also potentially present difficulties to staffers whom
are color blind? Not having that condition, don't know if it'd be
problematic.

-Dan

"Dan Foster" wrote in message
...
Wonder if it would also potentially present difficulties to staffers whom
are color blind?

Being color-blind doesn't mean that certain colors are invisible to the eye.
It just means that they look a lot like other colors.

In article , Peter Duniho wrote:
"Dan Foster" wrote in message
...
Wonder if it would also potentially present difficulties to staffers whom
are color blind?

Being color-blind doesn't mean that certain colors are invisible to the eye.
It just means that they look a lot like other colors.

Ah! Makes sense; duly noted -- thanks!

-Dan