There’s people telling stories here of over a year with special issuances, so I wouldn’t get too worked up over 7 weeks. My advice as a non-Doctor is worth exactly what you paid for it, though.
As a possible aside, on another board I’m on there’s folks discussing a recent request NOT to mark things PRNC anymore saying the FAA is saying they don’t want those, but I haven’t dug into it nor have they cited any official FAA documents.
Maybe the days of PRNC on some things is going to go away. It’s not like the stuff isn’t already in the freaking database. But anyway...
Maybe
@bbchien can shed some light on whether there’s been a change on instructions for PRNC items. I haven’t been able to find it if there are, but maybe it’s buried inside the “logged in and filling out the form” portion of the MedXpress website.
The fact that you could still select it throws a lot of cold water on that whole possibility to me, though... but government isn’t exactly speedy in changing websites to match their forms and bureaucracy changes.
Probably has to go out to a months long bid to remove a drop down item and then some contractor will claim such web interface work takes months and hundreds of thousands of dollars; while the rest of us in the private sector change our web interfaces sometimes more than once a day. LOL.
