Cub Driver wrote:


If one learns how to fly single engine and multi engine aircraft in the
airforce at a military flight school, does one automatically get a single
engine, multi engine and commercial license upon graduation? Is this
valid for civilian flying after discharge?

I think you have to ask for the ticket. If you do a search for George
W. Bush on the FAA site, you will find that he holds a civilian pilot
certificate, but his medical is not current, and his address is
unknown (!).

According to the link below:

http://www.seanet.com/~johnco/bush102.htm

Bush's last physical was in May 1971. He refused to take his next scheduled
physical and was grounded and never flew again in the Air National Guard.

Apparently Bush kept flying after his discharge from the Air National Guard.
If you go about 2/3 of the way down on the link above, it talks about Bush
taking Don Evans of Midland (I assume this is the same Don Evans who is now
Commerce Secretary) up for a spin.

Apparently the ride scared the hell out of both of them. From the
information on the FAA database, it appears that Bush was not current in
his phyisical and form the description of the 1976 piloting, it is apparent
Bush did not have recency of experience.

There is a lot about Bush's flying career that is unknown.


Wasn't there just recently a post here by an ex-mil pilot who held a
twin-engine rating but not single engine?

Any certificate is valid, once granted. It's the medical you have to
renew. (BFR, etc.)


all the best -- Dan Ford
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