Originally Posted by CRJdriver2017

I can assure you I’m not. That’s how it happened. LCA had no issue and let us push. Acars came saying RTG. LCA made a quick call from the jumpseat to his supervisor I believe and said I had both half’s of the medical but it was still a no-go. Senior LCA as well. He told me unfortunately this will have to be an unsat since we couldn’t complete the flight. Next day the FAA representative at my airline got in touch with me and asked some questions. Even he wasn’t really sure it was a an issue. I had to show him the chapter in our FOM that states “medical must be intact.” Perhaps this is a newer issue? Fleet management suggested it was. But there ended up being a bunch of cases of this after me. It was especially prevalent in the furloughs that returned.
And for the record, my story I’m saying on here is not what is on my application. The application is a very brief explanation of have a non-compliant medical and caused me to be removed from flying status for a few days. I have no choice but to take responsibility and I’m certainly not going to try and shift any blame on an application or in an interview.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by CLE to IAH

lots of questions. Most will never get answered truthfully….my biggest question is why TF would you cut your medical in half, just to carry two pieces around???

Originally Posted by CRJdriver2017

It was a dumb mistake. The day I got the medical I was trimming it out of the 8x11 paper and I just wasn’t paying attention and cut the wrong line. I remember thinking “oh ****, what did I just do?” Then I said “well I’ll just keep both half’s together thinking it would suffice.” Clearly that was a mistake lol. Looking back I would have contacted the FAA immediately or got a new medical. Probably the latter cause I was supposed to fly like the next day and I would have had to remove myself.
Huge lesson learned either way.

Originally Posted by CLE to IAH

lots of questions. Most will never get answered truthfully….my biggest question is why TF would you cut your medical in half, just to carry two pieces around???

Originally Posted by FahQ2

Saw it in a tiktok video

Originally Posted by CRJdriver2017

It was a dumb mistake. The day I got the medical I was trimming it out of the 8x11 paper and I just wasn’t paying attention and cut the wrong line. I remember thinking “oh ****, what did I just do?” Then I said “well I’ll just keep both half’s together thinking it would suffice.” Clearly that was a mistake lol. Looking back I would have contacted the FAA immediately or got a new medical. Probably the latter cause I was supposed to fly like the next day and I would have had to remove myself.
Huge lesson learned either way.

Originally Posted by MCDUmanipulator

better get ready. Spirit will be hiring CFI’s soon. There’s a reason they’re working on partnerships with universities.

Originally Posted by DrDHD

times are changing - spirit is facing a shortage of pilots while offering the second lowest FO pay and increasing upgrade times. 1500 hours? See frontier hiring flight instructors in 2017