Originally Posted by
GWYN
Many thanks for the clarification ChickenHouse. I still don’t fully understand though why people don’t appear on the database. Obviously those who have never held an FAA licence will not appear but for example, I myself had an FAA Airman Certificate, admittedly rather a long time ago, issued on the basis of a CAA licence and I have no entry in the database. Others whom I know did their initial licence in the US are not there; I have searched even for one who I know did his ATPL in the States and there is no entry. It could of course, (most likely!), be that I am just using the search function wrong.
I added it to the post above. If you did not give permission to publish the data, there will be no entry in the public database. When you did your validation before the IACRA portal and never got into it again, they will have no permit to publish and respect that.