Timeline for When did the United States stop issuing pilot "licenses" (and start issuing "certificates")?
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| May 21, 2023 at 16:04 | comment | added | Juan Jimenez | @Someone No. This is exactly how it works in the US. You earn your license and are given a certificate as proof of it. You are welcome to talk to your local FSDO if you have any doubts about that. | |
| May 21, 2023 at 2:05 | comment | added | Someone | @Timbo they use the word "license" informally, but they do not use it in the regulations. I'm focusing on the words because my question is about the words. A certificate does not prove that you have a license; the regulations require that you have a certificate in order to operate an aircraft. | |
| May 21, 2023 at 0:30 | comment | added | Timbo | @Someone, you are perhaps putting too much emphasis on the words and not what is being explained. The certificate is the proof that you have the license. That’s why the terms are nearly interchangeable. Even the FAA uses these interchangeably. faa.gov/faq/…. | |
| May 20, 2023 at 16:37 | comment | added | Someone | This is not true in the US. There is currently no such thing as a US pilot "license"; the term "certificate" is applied both to the document and the permission which it represents. Dictionary definitions are not necessarily legal definitions. There is such a thing as an FAA license, but it is only for spacecraft operators. ecfr.gov/… | |
| May 20, 2023 at 15:37 | history | answered | Juan Jimenez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |