Andy Hawkins <andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In article <1wghraeahnwxq$.185g7yrcu4oim$.dlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Dallas<Cybnorm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Hey Andy... let me be the second to congratulate you. I remember when
you
>> got started, just about exactly a year ago.
>
> Thanks for that. As you say, almost exactly a year. My first flight was
on
> 26th June 2007, passed the test on 1st June 2008.
>
>> It's a big deal and it will take a long time for the buzz to wear off.
>> (That's a good thing.)
>
> Indeed it will! If only my instructor had remembered to sign my log
book, I
> could get it all sent off to the CAA. Not sure if it's different, but in
the
> UK we can't exercise the privileges of the licence until we actually
have it
> issued!
>
> I can still fly dual, but can't carry passengers solo until the licence
> arrives (and that won't happen until after I get the log book signed and
> sent off!)
Painful! I was able to exercise all privileges of my certificate as soon
as I passed the checkride (in the US). I got a tem****ary paper
certificate, handwritten. It would have been printed but the examiner had
made a mistake and so had to write out a new one on the spot. The
tem****ary certificate was good for three or four months. The examiner
warned me that it could take nearly all of that time for the real one to
arrive, and to call him if it was getting near the end of it, but I got
the plastic one in only about two weeks. (When I mentioned this to him, he
blamed a decline in the number of new pilots making for less work at the
certificate factory.) I took my wife up flying two days after I passed,
would have been the same day but she was busy that day and so wasn't at
the air****t.
--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
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