How up-to-date is the FAA Airmen Registry?

[Ekim]

Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".

How current is the airmen database?
If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Ekim.

[EDR]

In article >, Ekim
> wrote:

> Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
> and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".
>
> How current is the airmen database?
> If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
> show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?

Maybe... maybe not.
If the certificate holder elected to opt out, the information will
never appear to the public.

[Joe Johnson]

My understanding is that "opt out" means they won't give your name & address
to vendors. It'll still be listed in the registry AFAIK.

"EDR" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, Ekim
> > wrote:
>
> > Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
> > and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".
> >
> > How current is the airmen database?
> > If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
> > show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?
>
> Maybe... maybe not.
> If the certificate holder elected to opt out, the information will
> never appear to the public.

[CFLav8r]

On a recent change to the restrictions on my medical it showed up within a
week.
But don't count on it as being up to date all the time.
I have friends that have had their updates take as long as 6 months.

"Ekim" > wrote in message
om...
> Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
> and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".
>
> How current is the airmen database?
> If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
> show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Ekim.
>

[EDR]

In article >, Joe
Johnson > wrote:

> My understanding is that "opt out" means they won't give your name & address
> to vendors. It'll still be listed in the registry AFAIK.

You are correct. I just did a search on myself.
It gives name, certificates, medical.
Does anyone know what DOI stands for?

[CFLav8r]

Joe Johnson > wrote:
>
> Does anyone know what DOI stands for?
>
Date Of Issuance.

[Tom Fleischman]

It usually takes about 90 days to show up. That has been my own
experience at least.

In article >, Ekim
> wrote:

> Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
> and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".
>
> How current is the airmen database?
> If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
> show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Ekim.

[Ron Natalie]

"Joe Johnson" > wrote in message om...
> My understanding is that "opt out" means they won't give your name & address
> to vendors. It'll still be listed in the registry AFAIK.
>
Actually, "opt out" is a real crock. There's no guarantee that the FAA takes any
special action on opt out requests (although they do sometimes).

[J. Hansen]

(Ekim) wrote in message >...
> Go to http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp
> and click on "Interactive Airmen Inquiry Web Site".
>
> How current is the airmen database?
> If the FAA issues a new certificate sometime today, Does the website
> show it immediately? The next day? Within a week?
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Ekim.

It states on the page approximately what issue date they are working on.
Every time I have applied for a new certificate or rating (I am currently
waiting for the permanent on number seven), it shows up within a week
or so of when that "working on" date gets to the date I submitted
the 8710. I have then usually received my permanent certificate in the
about a week after that. The actual time from when you submit your 8710
to when it shows up in the registry depends on backlog at the FAA which
you can determine from how far back the "working on" date is. For changes
other than a new certificate or rating such as an address change, it seems
to be much faster. When I moved, the address was update on the web site
and I had permanent certificate with the new address in two weeks.

Jeff H.

[Robert Perkins]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:09:29 -0500, "Ron Natalie" >
wrote:

>
>"Joe Johnson" > wrote in message om...
>> My understanding is that "opt out" means they won't give your name & address
>> to vendors. It'll still be listed in the registry AFAIK.
>>
>Actually, "opt out" is a real crock. There's no guarantee that the FAA takes any
>special action on opt out requests (although they do sometimes).

I emailed them according to their instructions for opting out the day
I found my address online. I received this response:

>Mr. Perkins,
>
>I have input a code into your airman record which will indicate that you do not wish to have your address made available to the general public.
>
>Your address will be removed from the Active Airmen Database. The website is updated each federal work day at midnight and the downloadable file is updated monthly.
>
>
>The Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, in addition to other statutory requirements, requires us to make airmen CERTIFICATE information available to the public.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Judy Johnson, AFS-760

Based on that, I'd have to say that I can expect my address to
disappear from FAA-provided lists within 40 days. Not that King and
Sporty's, or their agents, won't correlate my full name and cert
number with the list they've *already* purchased, but there you are.

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card

[Ron Natalie]

"Robert Perkins" > wrote in message ...
>> >Actually, "opt out" is a real crock. There's no guarantee that the FAA takes any
> >special action on opt out requests (although they do sometimes).
>
> I emailed them according to their instructions for opting out the day
> I found my address online. I received this response:
>
> >Mr. Perkins,
> >
> >I have input a code into your airman record which will indicate that you do not wish to have your address made available to the
general public.

Yes, I've done that too, but that's not what the ACT says. The act says I can chose to be completely
removed from the public dissemintation.


> >
> >The Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, in addition to other statutory'
> > requirements, requires us to make airmen CERTIFICATE information available to the public.
> >
>
The above is complete bull**** and indicative of the stupidity and corruption inherent in the
FAA. There is NO requirement that htey make the pilot information available (and many pilots
are omitted). AIR-21 says EXACTLY the opposite from what they are espousing. It specifically
says that the information must be omitted at the request of the pilot. FURTHERMORE, the
information released is in exceess of what AIR-21 specifically allows. Note that makes the
FAA in violation of the privacy act. The wording in AIR-21 provides a specific necessary
exemption for them.