Hi,
In article <1212488510.969722@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Michael Ash<mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
Indeed it is painful. I can still go flying, as long as I have an
instructor
with me. Our club's instructors are all volunteers so it's no great
financial burden to have one with me until the licence arrives.
Andy
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