Why does POA call it a PPL, when it is a Certificate?

[Dave Theisen]

POA is not regulatory.

I don’t think it’s Advisory either.

 

[X3 Skier]

I don’t think it’s Advisory either.

Thank God.

 

[Pi1otguy]

One gets a "license" to do things. Saying James Bond has "a certificate to kill" doesn't have the same feel to it.

 

[Pinecone]

Wench Launching in the original Glider Flying Handbook.

Sounds like a lot more fun.

 

[geezer]

Today I read a real estate form with a line for the professional doing the document to enter their (LICENCE, CERTIFICATE, PERMIT, REGISTRATION) and their name.

For the document, all those terms are synonymous.


Precise language, one meaning for a word in contracts, seems to be gone.

 

[MauleSkinner]

Precise language, one meaning for a word in contracts, seems to be gone.

The fact that you felt the need to define “precise language” kind of makes your point.

 

[GaryM]

A good pilot is always learning and now students are called learners so maybe POA is ahead of the curve ...

But a good pilot is also alway a student of aviation. I guess there wasn't a good word for that, so we're stuck with Learner.

 

[Daleandee]

But a good pilot is also alway a student of aviation. I guess there wasn't a good word for that, so we're stuck with Learner.

I was just having fun with it. Seems the FAA hasn't learned that students are learners yet (see what I did there?) -

https://www.faa.gov/forms/index.cfm/go/document.information/documentID/185786

When I received my certificate, many moons age, I was a student pilot but not a learner ...