No, but the way some of our pilots act over the very scary sick note, you'd think that this is the case lol. It seems some want to blow negotiating capital on something that isn't all that common for the vast majority of the pilot group.



Yup, it's an important distinction that the note isn't required until a sick call in the month AFTER you trip 120 hours of sick usage. So if you started the month with 119 hours, you could call out for a few 5 days, pushing you up over 170 hours of sick and you still wouldn't be required to provide a note. You would need a note the next month if you called in sick AND your 12 month lookback didn't happen to drop below 120 hours. Extreme example, but it's possible.

Taken further, once you hit your 4th or 5th year, you could call out sick for a 4 day every other month, for the rest of your career and you'd never need a note. You'd also never run out of sick leave because your it resets every 1Jun. For most of your career, you'd even still have another 100-150 hours of sick, over and above these callouts.