Originally Posted by
TheWeatherman
If memory serves, the application requires that you list everything within the last 10 years. Also, most places have an additional document to give more details on jobs within the last 5-years. If you leave something out and they find out about it, you will be terminated immediately. They will come into the middle of class and tell you to gather your things, and your classmates will never see you again. This literally happened to a classmate of mine in INDOC because his PIRA came back incomplete. Now you will have that on your record too.
Your best bet is to disclose everything and be honest about it. Don't make it out like it was all their fault, take some responsibility and tell them it was a good learning experience for you. Then say how it helped you with the jobs you have had since. I don't see one incident like that being a deal breaker (unless there is some bad details you left out), especially in this hiring environment.
According to AC 120-58H
If there is a discrepancy between what you put down and what the PRIA came back with, there is a process:
3.4.6 Allow Pilots/Applicants an Opportunity to Respond. Before making a final hiring decision, you must provide the pilot/applicant with a reasonable opportunity to submit written comments to correct any inaccuracies contained in the records. Retain such statements in the PRIA file for the individual. These comments may be included in the records from the previous employer; however, the pilot may forward these comments to you at some point during the interview or records review process.
The person that was terminated immediately may have been well outside this with a murder conviction or something similarly atrocious.