Personal PRIA Request
 

Hello all,

I need some help with a personal PRIA request and am confused on the FAAs website. It seems to be geared to airline requests and third parties on your behalf....

Requesting PRIA Records

Has anyone requested their PRIA them self?

Thanks for any guidance.

Yes, I did this successfully a couple months ago. I thought I filled out a form online, but maybe I attached the form to an email. Look at this link, which is one step back from the one you had.

http://www.faa.gov/pilots/lic_cert/pria/

I asked the FAA to send my complete airman file, to include certifications, accidents, enforcement actions, etc. I received an email with a letter attached within a couple days that stated that the FAA received my request, that no accidents or enforcement actions were on my record, and that another office would be mailing my complete record in a few days. I received a big packet a couple weeks later in the mail that included all my written test results, temporary certificates, etc, all the way back to when I started in 1988 or so. Pretty impressive! They did ask that I mail in a check for $4 or so for processing. I called the phone number listed with the original letter and confirmed that I received the same report they would send a Part 121 carrier for a PRIA request. Made me feel a little better.

So I am a little confused. If I failed an Oral at a 121 that was not part of an initial certification just a proficiency check will that be disclosed on a PRIA request from a company? I disclosed it on applications (better safe than sorry). I do have the packet from the FAA and it doesn't have anything about it. The event occurred 5 years ago and when I pulled my records last year and there was nothing. Somewhere I believe that when employment verifications happen the company can disclose any failures I have had that are not on the PRIA. Please correct me if im wrong, I would love to stop disclosing it!

It would probably not show up on a PRIA. However it probably would show up on a prior airline's training record. That may or may not find its way to the other airline independant of a PRIA request. That said, just disclose it. You should be able to spin it as a positive and learning experience by now, and everyone has to be able to do that. If you show up squeaky clean perfect, they WILL find something one way or another, even if they have to do it via "bad cop" antagonism or whatever. If you have a couple life lessons turned basically into well rehearsed softballs, that checks that box for the most part and does so in a way you can control and in a tone that you set.

I'm perfect! You're hired! That's just not realistic.

That was my question also. I've ended up just contacting my old airline and getting the answers I want there. I just don't want any surprises when I interview. As the previous person said, just disclose it and make it positive because you had to have learned something from it.

Thanks for the responses!