Certificates are useless unless the current management listed in the Manuals/Ops Specs are included in the purchase.
You cannot buy a dormant certificate and white-out all the management names and replace them with your own. Only the managing members responsible for the certificate (who are authorized by the CHDO) may submit revisions of Management Personnel to the CHDO who will process the submissions and verify qualifications, experience and violation, revokation histories and make applicable changes to EXISTING Ops Specs.
LOOK OUT!!! "NO PERSON MAY...."
Just because you hold a piece of paper finely framed and displayed on a wall DOES NOT MAKE YOU A CERTIFICATED OPERATOR!!! Go back to the kiddie pool until you learn how to swim like the rest of the snakes.
GLN produced manuals and services are too, uselss, if you are clueless as to the contents of the submissions and you are still the lowest of priorities at the FSDO. New Certifications take a back seat to EVERYTHING ELSE a FSDO does. GLN does have a program available where they supply manpower to do all the footwork for the certification, however, it is solely at the workload permitting basis at the FSDO and significantly MORE expensive than $10k.
You will still need to be present at all meetings as YOU wil be managing the operation NOT GLN. THUS, YOU will again be responsible for and should be intimately aware of EVERYTHING GLN submits for you or it will be an INSTANT "go to the back of the line and come back when you are serious....GLN will cash your checks and you will STILL not have a certificate.
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