Disclosing Checkride Busts
 

My friend had a interview with RAH, and has two checkride failures, but he told me he told them he had none. Is there a way from them to find out?

His old logbook from his part 91 days was destroyed, so the checkrides are not in there.

They will pull his PRIA and they will be on there. If he actually has 2 failures they will catch it and probably fire him.

Depends on the type of check ride busted.

He'll probably get fired not for failing a checkride, but for not disclosing it...

Yup. I assume this is during training, so if it's 141, it won't show up. If it's 61 or 142, it will. I hope this was just a "friend".

Someone said on the PRIA, it's online 121 busts, type rating busts etc.

And yeah it's my old CFI

They will request a copy of his entire file from the FAA. If he ever got a pink slip on a checkride, it will be in there. As long as no pink slip involved then they won't find out. If he wants to see what the FAA has, all you have to do is write Oklahoma City and they will send the entire file. Takes a couple of weeks and costs like .05 a page.

Always a good idea to do this before any interview so you can see exactly what is in there. I know a guy who interviewed with a regional and got the job, only to find out in training a DE had sent an erroneous pink slip in on him. It came up in the PRIA check, and fortunately he was able to prove otherwise with his logbook so they let him stay in class.

FOIA will get all busts including General Aviation, this is what most airlines are using now, PRIA only gets busts that happened while flying professionally. Basically a PRIA just pulls your training records from former employers.

I thought 121 training records only go back 5 years unless there is an 8710?

What airlines request foia records?