Holidaymaker flies aircraft to his holiday destination.

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Originally Posted by neilki

In FAA land we can no longer use a Photocopy/EMail from Crew Records etc. A temporary certificate has to be requested on https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certifi...rmen_services/
This is a recent change and may not be as well known as some.
#PSA

Thanks for the update.

Originally Posted by double_barrel

Perhaps more to the point, do you guys refrain from a glass of wine with a meal before traveling on holiday or deadheading, on the off chance that you might have to step up to the flight deck within the next 8 hours?

Whether you could legally drink alcohol while on a company deadhead out of uniform has been the subject of debate where I've worked. Domestic folks would say of course you can't drink, you are on duty. International types would say, of course you can, we do it all the time.

Inevitably, someone has an incident or is unavailable to operate and the policy gets 'clarified'.

On some international sectors deadheading crew are required to be in civilian clothes for security reasons, on others they must be in uniform for crew status in customs and immigration.