Rigid FAA Forms

I renewed my medical certificate yesterday. The secretary now uses some
software that guarantees everything is acceptable to the FAA. But it
choked on my hair color. I wrote "WHITE" but that isn't one of the
keywords that are allowed. She changed it to "GRAY" and said that would
get it through.

What do they do with bald people? Maybe I'll get my hair dyed a bit
when I can afford flying again.

In article ,
Stubby wrote:

I renewed my medical certificate yesterday. The secretary now uses some
software that guarantees everything is acceptable to the FAA. But it
choked on my hair color. I wrote "WHITE" but that isn't one of the
keywords that are allowed. She changed it to "GRAY" and said that would
get it through.

just another example of stupid programming.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

In article ,
Stubby wrote:

What do they do with bald people?

"NONE"

"Stubby" wrote in message

I renewed my medical certificate yesterday.

The Federal mindset at work. When I joined the AF many years ago, many
forms had to be filled out upon arrival at basic training. "You WILL enter
one middle initial in the box labeled 'middle initial'!" Like a naive fool,
I asked -- what if I have 2 middle initials? (which I do). Repeat: "You
WILL enter one middle initial in the box labeled 'middle initial'!" Someone
else asked -- what if you have no middle initial? "If you have no middle
initial, enter the letters NMN in the box!"

So,---- if you have one middle initial, you fit the mold; if you have two,
you're cut short; but if you have none at all, you get to have three.

Remember, life with a bureaucracy is nothing more than live whack-a-mole.

Stubby wrote:
I renewed my medical certificate yesterday. The secretary now uses some
software that guarantees everything is acceptable to the FAA. But it
choked on my hair color. I wrote "WHITE" but that isn't one of the
keywords that are allowed. She changed it to "GRAY" and said that would
get it through.

What do they do with bald people? Maybe I'll get my hair dyed a bit
when I can afford flying again.
I don't know, but I found that I had black as my hair color for the
medical, but brown on my pilot's license. When I was getting my
rectal probing for the FRZ Airports, they made me get that resolved.
They didn't care which one I picked as long as they matched. The
FSDO is on the way to work, so I got a new pilot certificate.

In a previous article, "John Gaquin" said:
The Federal mindset at work. When I joined the AF many years ago, many
forms had to be filled out upon arrival at basic training. "You WILL enter
one middle initial in the box labeled 'middle initial'!" Like a naive fool,
I asked -- what if I have 2 middle initials? (which I do). Repeat: "You
WILL enter one middle initial in the box labeled 'middle initial'!" Someone
else asked -- what if you have no middle initial? "If you have no middle
initial, enter the letters NMN in the box!"

When I enlisted, the guy filling out the form put "NMI" in the form, and
from then on all my official documents including my discharge notice say
"Paul NMI Tomblin". Stupid, stupid, stupid. Now that I'm older and more
cynical I think I should have made up middle names like "Norman Mailer
Issiah" to match the fake initials.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
There are mushrooms that can survive weeks, months without air or food.
They just dry out and when water comes back, they wake up again. And call
the helldesk about their password expiring. -- after Jens Benecke and Tanuki

Paul Tomblin schrieb:

When I enlisted, the guy filling out the form put "NMI" in the form, and
from then on all my official documents including my discharge notice say
"Paul NMI Tomblin". Stupid, stupid, stupid. Now that I'm older and more
cynical I think I should have made up middle names like "Norman Mailer
Issiah" to match the fake initials.

A friend of mine always put R in. Asked why, he said "R" as in "required".

Stefan

My dad was a paymaster for the Marine Corps during WWII. He said that there
was a story going around that some poor jarhead only had initials for his
first and last name. He kept getting his paperwork back with notes like
"need full first and middle name before we pay you" so he wrote R.(only) B.
(only) Jones on the form and sent it back in.

He was paid as Ronly Bonly Jones for the rest of the war.

Jim

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:24:42 -0400, Stubby
wrote:
What do they do with bald people? Maybe I'll get my hair dyed a bit
when I can afford flying again.

Hmmm... I always figured that field was a yes/no type of field...

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 17:00:10 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:
When I enlisted, the guy filling out the form put "NMI" in the form, and
from then on all my official documents including my discharge notice say
"Paul NMI Tomblin". Stupid, stupid, stupid. Now that I'm older and more
cynical I think I should have made up middle names like "Norman Mailer
Issiah" to match the fake initials.

Even these days, there are some programmers who are so clueless that
when they write the systems, they don't allow for hyphens in names...