When we left for our home assignment the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) refused to renew my pilot’s license early. Instead they asked me to turn it in to them for “safe keeping” until I returned. When we returned I went to the CAAP office straight away to retrieve my license. As I suspected there was a lot of confusion as to what needed to be done to reinstate the license. To make a long story short, I started trying to renew the license on September 2nd and finally received my license on December 11th after jumping through all the hoops I finally took my checkride and got the license. In the end the process I went through was the same process that I went through to get the license initially except for one small written test that they waived as a reward for putting the license in safekeeping.
To celebrate the end of a long process we went out to the hangar as a family and Maycie and Dylan rode with me on my first passenger flight since returning to the field this time. It was a drawn out process but God was gracious and I was able to accomplish everything I needed to up to this point with the temporary license that was issued to me in October. I’ll start getting back behind the controls the last week of January and in February will begin flying full-time as the field pilot again so that Joel and Missy Davis can go on their home assignment.
David Abbott says
Great to hear you’re back in the air! I’m not sure who is happier to see this process completed, you or Joel and Missy Davis?