RussR
En-Route
I just got a new airman certificate and decided to read the paper it comes with.
At the very bottom of the front side it says "A deceased airman's certificate should be returned to the Airman Certification Branch within 30 days of death."
I assume this is an attempt to track living airmen. But does this actually ever happen? Since the Airman is probably the only one who even has a slight chance of reading this document, how would the surviving spouse/children/etc even know they "should" do this? And of those, how many are actually going to bother to put it in an envelope, address and stamp it?
I'm guessing the compliance rate on this is pretty exactly zero. Seems like pretty wishful thinking to bother including this statement.
At the very bottom of the front side it says "A deceased airman's certificate should be returned to the Airman Certification Branch within 30 days of death."
I assume this is an attempt to track living airmen. But does this actually ever happen? Since the Airman is probably the only one who even has a slight chance of reading this document, how would the surviving spouse/children/etc even know they "should" do this? And of those, how many are actually going to bother to put it in an envelope, address and stamp it?
I'm guessing the compliance rate on this is pretty exactly zero. Seems like pretty wishful thinking to bother including this statement.
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