James M. Knox wrote:

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.

I'd something a little different occur for my PPL checkride. The DE had
made a mistake on the form (his own certificate's expiration date, I
believe). So there was an added delay.

The DE sent something to the Teterboro FSDO, and they issued a second
temporary certificate. Aside from the drive to TEB, which was fun anyway
as I'd never been there at that point, it was no big deal.

What I cannot recall is how I knew about all this. I *think* I called OKC
when the countdown on my temporary was getting short, and that they told me
what to do.

- Andrew