Originally Posted by
VIRotate
I've had a few line checks before. I'm just confused about some of the details like most of us here. Why did you get an ACARs to return to gate? Didn't the LCA just look at your docs and that's all? Did he make a phone call or send an ACARs specifically about the condition of your medical? I guess what I'm trying to ask is how did it make it all the way to dispatch/company so quickly? Especially if the LCA just shrugged it off and said let's go fly.
That is a little unclear as I never asked. I know there was no acars sent personally by him. My guess is a picture maybe got emailed in? Not sure why he would have allowed us to push had he known it was a no go thing. When they acars initially came in I turned around and asked him if he knew what that was about and he didn’t at first. Then he said “oh maybe it’s because your medical wasn’t intact? Let’s cancel line up and wait so I can make a quick phone call.” But I agree, that aspect has been bugging me ever since.
I do remember the LCA was finishing a trip and was trying to get home and just decided to do a line check in the process. Maybe that was part of why he ok’d it? He wanted to get home? I’m purely speculating on that.