Average time for PPL issue?
Average time for PPL issue?
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Thanks peeps!
I take it its not the 5 weeks I've been told then...
Long Final- Aint done it yet, got to do Nav exam, plus met, RT, A/C tech, FP, my QXC and both skills tests, then im done. I just hope I can get it done by 6th April, when im 17!
Rusty
I take it its not the 5 weeks I've been told then...
Long Final- Aint done it yet, got to do Nav exam, plus met, RT, A/C tech, FP, my QXC and both skills tests, then im done. I just hope I can get it done by 6th April, when im 17!
Rusty
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Rusty,
It depends on all sorts of things like weather and time of year. If you finish in mid-summer with some good weather, it could take 5-6 weeks. I finished my PPL(A) in September, they had a back-log, and it took about a month. My PPL(H), in June, took a little less. In the winter it can be quicker. But sometimes delays are inexplicable, and sometimes quick issue is equally so. It's a lottery, like many other things in aviation. You either learn patience or camp out at the Belgrano.
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Whirly
To fly is human, to hover, divine.
It depends on all sorts of things like weather and time of year. If you finish in mid-summer with some good weather, it could take 5-6 weeks. I finished my PPL(A) in September, they had a back-log, and it took about a month. My PPL(H), in June, took a little less. In the winter it can be quicker. But sometimes delays are inexplicable, and sometimes quick issue is equally so. It's a lottery, like many other things in aviation. You either learn patience or camp out at the Belgrano.
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Whirly
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From: north of barlu
FCL managed to lose my CPL exam results for 3 weeks one time , the next time i had a change of licence they lossed my logbook but sent me another guys IMC rating and logbook insted !
I called the owner of the logbook and found that he had been waiting 4 weeks for it ,so despite the protests of FCL i sent it to him as i did not trust them to cock it up once more.
FCL has some very hard working people at the coleface who try to get the job done with inadiquate resorces but in my view the management should be introduced to the harsh realitys of the life on the outside of aviation house.
I called the owner of the logbook and found that he had been waiting 4 weeks for it ,so despite the protests of FCL i sent it to him as i did not trust them to cock it up once more.
FCL has some very hard working people at the coleface who try to get the job done with inadiquate resorces but in my view the management should be introduced to the harsh realitys of the life on the outside of aviation house.
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A&C's posting reminds me of my own experience.
PPL initial issue application submitted on 7 July and great jubilation when the longed for brown wallet arrived on 27 August. (Over seven weeks later). Sadly, although they managed to put my FRTOL in the wallet, the PPL itself belonged to somebody else... tears before bedtime that day!
PPL initial issue application submitted on 7 July and great jubilation when the longed for brown wallet arrived on 27 August. (Over seven weeks later). Sadly, although they managed to put my FRTOL in the wallet, the PPL itself belonged to somebody else... tears before bedtime that day!
