{"id":1071,"date":"2010-02-28T19:26:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T23:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2010-04-04T07:44:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T11:44:39","slug":"brian-can-fly-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/2010\/02\/28\/brian-can-fly-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Can Fly Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks ago I went to Luzon to get our Cessna 180 ready to sell.<\/a> I flew with our chief pilot, Garry, to Manila and we took a taxi from the airport terminal straight to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) headquarters with high hopes of getting a pile of paperwork processed before closing time. Included in that pile was getting my temporary Philippine pilot’s license.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We arrived at the CAAP office and the people we needed to see were there in the office. This was a real blessing because often they are out giving check rides and not around. I was approved to take a written exam on Philippine regulations on the spot. We hopped in a taxi and went to the testing center and they got me in right away to take the test. I should mention that I had never seen a book of Philippine regulations before taking the test so I was nervous.<\/p>\n

I took my test and felt like I failed it. Some of the questions were not even questions. They were sentence fragments that made no sense at all. It wasn’t a matter of not knowing the content, but a matter of not understanding the English! So I figured I’d failed the test and would find out my results a couple days later. That wasn’t the case though. They graded the exam while I waited and I passed with a minimum passing score of 70%!<\/p>\n

They printed my results out right there and I took them back to the CAAP office just as they were closing, signed my pilot’s license and was done. I expected the process to take several days, but we did it all on our way home from the airport. It was such a blessing to have that complete. Now I will fly 10 hours in the country to prepare for a check ride with a Filipino examiner. After the check ride (assuming I pass) I will have a permanent Philippine pilot’s license and can start flying passengers again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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