Originally Posted by
v1rotatay
I was lucky enough to leave a regional with an R-ATP and get hired somewhere (not here) with it. After I realized I was gonna leave again before upgrading or going through a CQ event to have it removed, I ended up getting the FSDO to do it via Zoom call after I emailed over my 25 hrs of Acting PIC paperwork and a photo ID.
It took a bit of back and forth and they finally were like "Fine, we'll do it, but we're gonna train someone new on how to do it".
Worked out. But still have that stupid CL-65 is subject to PIC limitations stuck on my cert even with a CE-680 PIC type and a 737 one now.
similar boat for me, never got the 500 xc while flight instructing or at the regional, went to an lcc and even though I went through cq twice and went to the fisdo I kept getting excuses as to why the paperwork is hard and couldn’t get it removed, but met all the requirements. It was removed on my initial checkride here though which was nice.