Applicants will then receive instructions for printing a temporary
airman certificate, which is good for 120 days.
As of December 2016, statistics from the Federal Aviation Administration show that there are 584,362 Americans with an active
airman certificate and of those 162,313 have a private plane certificate.
Not exact matches
FAA uses the PII in RMS to grant, track, and monitor
airmen and aircraft
certificates.
You can find RMS» system of records notices, DOT / FAA 847 and DOT / FAA 801, Records documenting the
certificate type, class, rating (s) and limitation (s) issued to an
airman.
During this change,
airmen can request, online or offline, that his or her social security number not appear as a
certificate number.
For an individual's PII to be included in RMS, that individual must be associated with an
airmen or aircraft
certificate or application.
With this in mind, RMS may include or collect the following data on
airmen and / or aircraft owners and registrants, either for authentication or certification requirements: Name, Date of birth (
airmen only), Social security number (
airmen only), Driver's license number, passport number, or government ID number, Physical Description (height, weight, hair and eye color, sex, and citizenship), Address (
airmen only), Medical records (
airmen only),
Certificate number (
airmen only) In the past, RMS used an
airman's social security number as the
certificate number.
RCISS is used by AVS, other parts of FAA, and other government agencies, e.g., NTSB, to analyze safety data; manage time - intensive processes such as
airman certification, safety inspections, designee and equipment
certificate activities; and share information with appropriate people and organizations.
All
airmen, air traffic controllers (ATCs) and certain other designated FAA employees are required to have FAA Medical
Certificates.
It should also be noted that the
certificate requires a retest every 24 months, which is in compliance with the general flight review of all
airmen.