Originally Posted by Pakagecheck

New guidelines says tell them prior to opening the book, not that you can't open it until they tell ya to. We will have more than enough time to then pull out the book and come to a possible conclusion, so when they say turn to page 17-111 in your hymnal, I can say did you mean 117-11? While my systems knowledge is descent, they are the systems experts. I know a couple of guys that did the legwork and told mocc the mel, got time and inits and pressed. A couple of days later, there's an email stating, the wrong email was applied and that the FAA was notified. Nice! So their way takes an extra 5-10 minutes after pushback(ok, 10-20), is right now when we really need to be leaning so far forward? Remember, don't use mil and you guys are abusing sick!

As far as the doctor's note, I think I might just try to keep a doctor on retainer. Mine 3 doors down prefers Macallan.