"Harry Gordon" wrote in
:

It can take between 2-4 months to get the card. It took about 2 months
for mine as best I recall. Here is a FAA web site that tells you what
DOI dates the FAA is working. http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.asp

It can get a bit messier. Mine didn't arrive, and the temporary was
about to run out. [Didn't know the FAA web site had a "currently
serving" page.] So I looked on there for a phone number to call. Nope,
nor a link for "if we haven't sent yours." Just for "if you lost the
one we sent you."

Called AOPA. They said it is actually taking between 4 and 6 months for
some of them to process. I got the phone number to call at OKC. Called
OKC. Finally got through to someone who now says that they have no
record of me passing the checkride. She gave me the number of the FSDO
(actually, a long list because she didn't know which one was in charge)
who said they couldn't send me an extension on the temporary (because
they had nothing from OKC to show that they were processing the
permanent.

Called the DE who gave me the checkride. He claims he sent it to the
FAA, but now can find no copy of any of his paperwork for me. [Yes, he
DOES say he sort of remembers me passing! G] So now what I am being
told is that I can try to reconstitue the paperwork, including the
application, find a CFI to sign it, and basically treat it like I was
just now taking the checkride.

Sigh...

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James M. Knox
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