This. I don’t think someone would sign off on a student if they weren’t actively managing you. Also how are you planning on flying without being in a flight school or part 61?
Yeah something is off or isn’t translating.
I don't know what you mean by "sign off" but there is absolutely no reason to get a student pilot certificate if you're not going to flight school.
You don’t need to have it until you solo. But many get it at the beginning of training.
Ed, may I ask why? You don’t need to have it until you are close to solo. Once you begin training, your instructor or someone else at the flight school will take care of it. The process will only take a few minutes and you will have the certificate well in advance of its need.
There's no reason to take the private pilot written either and start the checkride clock.
Given the lack of need and the likelihood of a CFI signing off that they have verified the identity of a random person from the Internet, I’m just as happy to chalk it up to newbie ignorance as opposed to bad intent.
I didn't remember or realize that a class 3 medical get's you a student pilot certificate.
A class 3 no longer gets you a student pilot certificate. I got a plastic student pilot card and it requires an IACRA application, which needed a CFI sign off to submit.
It used to until April 1 2016. They were issued by AMEs at the same time as the first medical. Basically, two different certificates sharing one piece of paper - paper, not plastic. The back of the certificate was for solo endorsements. As part of the change, all solo endorsements were moved to the logbook, but with the paper one, there were certificate endorsements (aircraft make and model) and logbook endorsements (make and model and 90-day endorsement). There was also a separate paper certificate if the student was still a student pilot when the medical was renewed. The combo looked like this (the medical class was added when the AME issued it).
Ah yes, now I remember the IACRA. I started training in 2015 and finished in 2016. My instructor helped me setup my IACRA account right before my check ride in 2016.
The medical in advance is not a puppy mill thing. It's been a long-time recommendation to avoid the expense of flight training and then learning you don't qualify medically when you are seeking certificates that require an FAA medical.
No, you don't even need keys.
I don't know a single pilot that has a license.But the OP said he's not interested in going to a flight school now.
Funny. I know several.No, you don't even need keys.
As others pointed out, the student pilot certificate was decoupled from the medical in 2016. When I got mine in 1981, the medical form had a student pilot certificate on the application that if you only needed the medical, your AME tore off and threw away. Student Pilot+ medical was "goldenrod" where the straight medical was white.
Right, I thought maybe he was getting prepared in advance because a school told him he needed it up front.
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got mine with 3rd class, guess that's changed
I guess its been a while. yes i edited some bits. This was the first one I found.... the form did change to a white paper without the student pilot cert part sometime in the 2000's. I honestly don't think I ever read the white paper forms other than to sign it.. I assumed it was still the same arrangement.
