New FAA licence
 

I've applied on line for the new format licence. How long does it take to be sent out?

Thanks

Recent online applicants here in the U.S. have received their new-format certificates in about a week to 10 days.

Thanks. :)

... what kind of new format are we talking aboot?

The plastic card v. the old paper one. The paper FAA pilot & CFI certificates are void the end of March. FEs, A&Ps, Dispatchers, etc. have till 2013

...thanks! I didn't know there are still paper license going around!

The plastic card does not have a photo so it is still useless as ID. The FAA should have included photos on the plastic cards.

If you haven't had a change in last 5 or 6 years, you'll still have the paper.

There was talk about adding the picture (and there were some prototypes issued) but the thought of pilots having to travel 100s of miles to the nearest FSDO nixed it. Hence the requirement to carry photo ID. FAR 61.3(b) I doubt many people would use their certificate as ID anyway.

I have actually seen an FAA pilot certificate with a photo on it, held by an FAA Inspector at XXX FSDO. (experimental, I guess, at this point) He said he watched the technician/clerk make it (in Ok. City, I think), and they just electronically grabbed the photo off of his Passport or driver's license. He said it was frightening how much access the person had to all info about him on one computer thanks to the Patriot Act linking-up of government & other databases.

I know a FAA inspector who ramped an air carrier crew and asked to see their certificates. He then asked if they had heard about the certs with the photo and that they were required. Pulled his out to show them. The Captain was calling his Chief Pilot before the Fed told him his was OK.

That's what it is! Anybody know how it'll be?

http://www.nexgen-aviation.com/images/package.jpg

Hello,

I'm trying o get the new plastic format. Foreign national. I am in the process of exchanging emails with the Airmen Certification Branch. The latest news are they want a photo id source (US passport, driver's license, ...). Any foreign national here can enlighten me ?

Thanks

yes, put your own countrys passport info in the spaces. If its a based on license, l belive you have to get it re-validated by your own caa/faa etc.

I'm afraid I already have an email from the Airmen Certification people stating they don't accept my foreign passport as a photo id source. And no, my license was obtained from scratch, not based on my foreign license.

Thanks

Have you checked that they dont have a FAA office or DPE in your country.

I will check the embassy. Eons ago they used to have an FAA rep. Thanks.

Would be interested to know what you find out. The US Embassy does have an FAA London Office but am not sure what it is for as there are no 'Inspectors' available.

I got my plastic one back in 2004, a couple of $s and it arrived in 10 days.

The new ones should also have "English Proficient" added to them and there was a big argument about getting this done for UK based pilots as apart from the UK based DPEs who charge a large fee, you'd have to visit the US ("with ID in person") to satisfy them. I've done this once and it is not fun.

Alex.

I'll let you know. I surely miss the times where things where sooo much simpler :ugh:

SoCal App

I tried to do it online but I got stuck in this bit of the application where you have to compulsorily select a photo id source (US passport number, driver's license number). :{

Welll when l click on passport, it it asks me to choose from a list of countrys.............:rolleyes:

Thanks malc4d
 

malc4d

Your are ab-so-lu-te-ly right. I asumed they wanted a US passport and got all wound up :uhoh:

Then I emailed the people at the Airmen Certification Branch and their reply was that they would not accept my foreign passport as a photo id source: loads of bull apparently.

Job done online. I could even use my credit card for the $2 fee. I owe you one.

Thanks

Update. I'm Canadian. I applied on line about the time I started this thread. I entered my Can. PP details. I received my new one in the mail on the 22. (12 days) Pretty painless.:ok:

Deadline March 31, 2010
 

Strange.

Turn the clock back to 1995 and the FAA was doing a trial run of plastic licences at Oshkosh complete with a photo.

I have one of those plastic licences. It sits with my FAA paper licence dertificate. Although it has sample marked on it it has all the details of the paper licence.
Does anyone have any idea if this 1995 FAA plastic licence meets the FAAs current requirement for a plastic licence?

Yes, I am a foreign national with an FAA licence based on my current overseas licence. The FAA has indicated that I should travel to the US to get a plastic licence.
The last time I went to the US was in 2002(?) and while I was in transit the FAA advised that they would not be touching foreign licences for the next xxxx weeks, the period that I was staying in the US.

Any advice appreciated.

I have a FAA ATPL and lived in Korea. I went to the FAA web site mentioned somewhere, use my personal CC for $2 USD and they mailed it to me within two weeks with international postage paid. Doesn't sound too difficult to me. The 1995 Oshkosh sample is just that a SAMPLE and not valid except as a conversation piece on you wall or where ever you have it.