A new week....

Hi,
It's Monday morning. I took the weekend off from blogging. Since it's not a revenue generator I'm not inclined to work that hard at it, yet.

The weekend was hot & steamy here in Yardley... the weather was that way too. Ha, gotcha!

Marshall got his Aurora car back from his mom. She gets her new car tomorrow... everybody is happy.

His new issue is with his pilots licence. His USA licence is based on him having received his original licence in Canada. When he moved back to the US he upgraded his licence to an 'instrument rating', still based on this Canadian issued pilots licence. The FAA has mandated that the paper licences have to be converted to plastic cards (why this is important I have no idea since the plastic cards are the same thing, except for a picture... not of the pilot, but of the Wright Brothers.... do I look like an Orville or a Wilbur?)

We went down to the FSDO office in Philly almost 2 months ago. I had to get my licence home address changed, Marshall to get the new plastic version of his. My new card showed up in 3 weeks, Marshall's life became hell. Since his licence is based on an original Canadian licence, and he doesn't have a current 'Canadian' physical to go with the 'Canadian' licence, then he is not 'current' on his licence.... making him 'expired'? He got an extension on his licence & has been studying to get his commercial licence since he sort of has to start again to get a USA pilots licence. He figures he might as well upgrade his rating. Today he went to get another extension so that he can plan to get his commercial ticket, only to be told that he'll need a current Canadian medical to get the extension.... are you all still with me on this? I know it's confusing. Even the FAA people don't have a handle on this.

As luck would have it... and this is slightly off topic, but bear with me..... at lunch with my girlfriends a few weeks ago we were joined by this guy who was eaves-dropping on our conversation at the Indian restaurant. He's a retired commercial pilot, looking to pick up chicks. Any way, none of us were available but he was looking for company and we chatted for a while with him. The following week I'm back at the same restaurant (it's my official haunt for Indian cuisine) and low & behold, Nick, my pilot buddy, is there too. I start telling him about Marshall's licencing problems and he gives me a name of a doctor in New Jersey that does Canadian medical pilot examinations.... I keep it just in case. Is this scary or what? It's a small, small world.

Now Marshall is having to arrange a medical to cover off his Canadian licence, keep it current until he can get his US commercial licence done and not have to deal with the fact that his licence was from Canada originally... at least that's the plan so far.

Whew, this blogging is exhausting.

Me? I'm fine and staying out of the heat outside.

Have a cool day where ever you are

xox
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