Anybody seen pictures of the new licences?

Panama Jack · Post by **Panama Jack** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:27 am

I am wondering if anybody has seen pictures of the new licence format, or if there is an internet image of them. Understand they will be a passport like book, with stickers and all that. Just curious.

Counciler · Post by **Counciler** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:58 am

I believe there was a blurb about that in the last TC Safety Letter. May look like a 'passport' -type booklet.

Kelowna Pilot · Post by **Kelowna Pilot** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:04 pm

Why not an FAA 'credit card' style license that easily fits in your wallet?

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:12 pm

Because Canadians are ignorant and bigoted towards Americans, hence anything the USA does must be inferior to what we do

xsbank · Post by **xsbank** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:43 pm

TC has thought about this and ruminated and pontificated, taken surveys, asked pilots and officials, looked at other country's efforts and did exactly the opposite. The last license never fitted in your wallet properly either but that didn't stop them.

This is probably the highest-price, most cumbersome and ill-conceived program that the designers of the Quebec consulting firm could come up with, one that will make the operation of the gun registry seem light and streamlined.

What we need to do is find a name for it like 'looney' or that ilk. "Scuse me, can I see your Doorknob, please." "Sir, please present your Dickhead for the scanner." "Have you got your Mindless Bureaucratic Moron Book with you?"

Sorry, but you have the wrong sticker - this one appears to be from a grocery store, and this one is glued in upside down. If you're going to carry this thing, you need to duct tape it to your belly because it will not fit in anything smaller than a Samsonite (or should that be Smithrite?) weekender and no, the rampies didn't see your crew tags and sent your bag to the hotel with the rest of the bird watcher's stuff and no, you don't have your license so you can't go back to the plane. In fact, you are under arrest. Did you say you were from Canada? Are they all 'special' up there? Are you sure you really wouldn't just rather get an FAA license and leave? That little immigration turd in Macau is laughing at you, did you notice?

altiplano · Post by **altiplano** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:56 pm

2 days in a row! xs is on a roll...

just curious · Post by **just curious** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:19 pm

Good thing we're paying those dough-heads 100's of thousand dollars to come up with new ideas like this.

Yep, yesterday's technology... tomorrow.

xsbank · Post by **xsbank** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:39 pm

Good to see the feds were right in there already in the 20s with an entire bureaucracy set up to regulate flying machines. I'll bet you could fly from one end of the country to the other and not even see a 'flying machine' but the feds are in there like a dirty shirt, squeezing fees.

Its ok to have a license as big as a Harry Potter book if you don't have to drag it around and actually show people. Just about every country, including the US, asks for your license when you go to customs. What a joke (slams license on officer's desk, raising a small squall. "What please is that thing? Need license to pilot, not phone book.").

Having said that, JC did that license belong to a relative? What a wonderful thing to keep for your kids. I have a few bits and pieces from my father but nothing as old as that (except I have a control wheel from a Vickers Vimy bomber, which might be older still); its almost as old as the Navajos I flew once.

U/S · Post by **U/S** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:57 pm

XS you crack me up. Thats hilarious. The Dennis Miller of AvCanada.

W5 · Post by W5 » Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:01 pm

I do have an old European license that looks like that (so did my driver's license over there).
Stamps galore, oh yeah, and holes punched in areas that were not valid.

Dash-Ate · Post by **Dash-Ate** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:45 pm

no.

Panama Jack · Post by **Panama Jack** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:59 pm

Hey, that's a cool image just curious. Never seen those before.

I hold licences in several countries that Canadians consider "third world." Strangely enough, they are very good looking, small plastic "driver's licence" type of documents-- and they even manage to fit on all the information required by ICAO Annex 1.

Alex YCV · Post by **Alex YCV** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:04 pm

Count your blessings. Normally when Quebec gets involved they create a whole other agency and makes you pay another fee to keep a duplicate but not similar set of paperwork up to date.

The one thing I have learned living in Quebec, duplication and repetition are a way of life.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:44 am

living in Quebec, duplication and repetition are a way of life.

yeah, well, at least that's also true for the sex there.

Rockie · Post by **Rockie** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:15 am

xsbank wrote:TC has thought about this and ruminated and pontificated, taken surveys, asked pilots and officials, looked at other country's efforts and did exactly the opposite. The last license never fitted in your wallet properly either but that didn't stop them.

This is probably the highest-price, most cumbersome and ill-conceived program that the designers of the Quebec consulting firm could come up with, one that will make the operation of the gun registry seem light and streamlined.

What we need to do is find a name for it like 'looney' or that ilk. "Scuse me, can I see your Doorknob, please." "Sir, please present your Dickhead for the scanner." "Have you got your Mindless Bureaucratic Moron Book with you?"

Sorry, but you have the wrong sticker - this one appears to be from a grocery store, and this one is glued in upside down. If you're going to carry this thing, you need to duct tape it to your belly because it will not fit in anything smaller than a Samsonite (or should that be Smithrite?) weekender and no, the rampies didn't see your crew tags and sent your bag to the hotel with the rest of the bird watcher's stuff and no, you don't have your license so you can't go back to the plane. In fact, you are under arrest. Did you say you were from Canada? Are they all 'special' up there? Are you sure you really wouldn't just rather get an FAA license and leave? That little immigration turd in Macau is laughing at you, did you notice?

The earth shook, pigs have flown and the moon has turned blue. We are of one mind on this.

xsbank · Post by **xsbank** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:23 am

Hey Rockie, really? I'm gobsmacked. Will sit down for a while and try to think of what this means...

Yup, there goes another pig.

What Limits · Post by **What Limits** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:10 pm

Have a look at the JAR licence - A6 booklet with clear pockets for at least 10 pages and up towards 15 depending on qualifications.

Size isn't everything!

snaproll20 · Post by **snaproll20** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:01 pm

Hedley, you beat me to it.

Yeah, this crap has been on the griddle for a while.
I truly hope they do not come up with a passport type of licence.
WHere the %$^$%#@ is a person supposed to carry THAT!!!
At least when I travel, I have a suitcase to put the goddamned passport in.
Think maybe if I ever go flying again, I will just leave it behind.
I won't carry a purse. (Although it may come in handy to hit one of those idiots with if they ever ask to see it on the ramp.)
Probably hang myself on the strap climbing into the Twotter on floats anyway.

Why in the name of JC did they not just produce a credit card with all the pilot qualification stuff barcoded on it, with a picture and a security strip to get you through the odd airport door? Waterproof too!!!!

Morons, idiots, incompetent, stupid wretches!!!!!!
Don't get me started!

And how much is this piece of garbage going to cost?

Big Pratt · Post by **Big Pratt** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:00 pm

I believe this is yours...

C-GPFG · Post by **C-GPFG** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:58 pm

Weren't the new licences to be issued this summer? Has anyone received theirs yet?