Originally Posted by
timnunes
It's a little more complicated than that. You need logged ground time in your logbook from the endorsing instructor, or you need to have completed a home study course. Home study courses usually have some sort of graduation certificate you can print out that counts as an endorsement.
You still might find someone who will endorse you though, there's got to be an instructor out there who doesn't care about written endorsements. The FAA never checks that sort of thing.
I'm curious where you find the "need logged ground time" in the regs for written's. Nothing has to be logged for a written-test in anything, there is required ground time logged for certain items per whatever practical test they will be taking though. My take on it is someone who has the Gleims, there's no graduation cert, there's just a sign-off page in the back of the book that you rip out and take with you to the testing center.
A couple of questions for RxPilot is, where is your regular instructor??? I'm just puzzled why you are not in contact with someone that can take care of those sign-off's as is? Another thing, as I'm assuming this situation may warrent, is take a copy of your practice exam scores with you to wherever you go, as to provide some sort of "proof" that you should do well. Lastely, where are you located? I have a hard time believing you struck out at 3 FBO's. Even if there isn't a flight school, there has to be someone local who teaches.
I'm not trying to be a jerk, just trying to figure out where the problem is here.