I should have mentioned (wrt Ron's posting) that the Reno office of the FAA couldn't cope with the little white card because it had no photo. We took everything we had and let them decide and they picked the green book. They also issued us commercial licences because of our instructors tickets. Its likely that different offices/people cope with different things
This was 1993. -Cath > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Catherine > Conway > Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2002 2:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [aus-soaring] FAA license > > > When David and I went there, we had to go to an FAA office with > our logbooks > (we went to Reno). The thing that interested them most was the C > certificate book because it had a number and a photo. So our US licences > were issued for the validity period of that document (which never > expires I > think). They spent some time looking at our logbooks, then issued us with > temorary licences so we could fly at Minden the same day. We used these > same licences a few weeks later in Hawaii. The proper licences > arrived when > we were back in Australia. > > Funny thing was that our licences said aerotow only (despite > presentation of > our logbook which had mostly winching in it). When I queried it, the FAA > guy said that there was no winching anyway (which is not true but we were > not visiting a winch site so it wasn't worth the effort). > > Its a very interesting site - we really enjoyed it. > Unfortunately the ridge > wasn't working, but doing circuits that are mostly over the ocean > is pretty > cool. We also had a ride each in a Pitts where our aerobatics flight was > videotaped. > > -Cath > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jay > > Anderson > > Sent: Thursday, 24 January 2002 12:26 PM > > To: Aus-Soaring > > Subject: [aus-soaring] FAA license > > > > > > I am planning a trip to Hawaii and wish to rent a glider at > > Dilingham Field. > > The prooprietor has advised that to fly solo I will need a US Federal > > Aviation Authority gliding certificate. Anyone know wht's involved in > > obtaining one? Will the US authority recognise our FAI certificates? > > > > > > > > -- > > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message > > * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. > > > > > > > -- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message > * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. > > -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
