What's the deal with Pink Slips?

[kneeshoe]

Like many people, I have busted a checkride and received a pink slip. Here are a few questions that I had about it:

1. What does the FAA do with their copy of my pink slip?
2. Will future employers frown upon this?
3. What should I do with the pink slip that I was given?
4. Why do exams given under part 61 and 142 have pink slips, but not part 141?

 

[Fugawe]

I don't wear them.


Fugawe

 

[Ill Mitch]

Like many people, I have busted a checkride and received a pink slip. Here are a few questions that I had about it:

1. What does the FAA do with their copy of my pink slip?
2. Will future employers frown upon this?
3. What should I do with the pink slip that I was given?
4. Why do exams given under part 61 and 142 have pink slips, but not part 141?

1. ??
2. Usually not
3. Frame it and display it proudly above your mantle
4. ??

 

[Wankel7]

Yeah , that show was cool... The RX-7 owned that civic!

Or, there is always a chance it will come up in an interview. Whatever you do don't say oh the weather was bumpy, or the examiner wasn't fair...blah blah.

Just make sure you say you messed something up and you learned from it.

Wankel

 

[Carl_Spackler]

most employers won't care, unless you show a pattern of failures. Chances are that the people doing the interview have been pinked also.

 

[GVFlyer]

Ill Mitch

Is that http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/shock_g/artist.jhtmlShock-G (Gregory E. Jacobs) from Digital Underground in your avatar?

GV
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/shock_g/artist.jhtml

 

[User998]

I got pink slipped three times in my flight training career.

TWO of them was by the same examiner, and was both on my Private and Instrument orals, both doing with flight planning.

The THIRD one I earned fair and square on the flight portion of another rating.

I've always heard that two or more pink slips is really bad, but technically the first two I got was both ground work, and it was the same subject on the first two checkrides I ever took. Would that maybe give me some leeway in the eyes of an interviewer?

 

[SkyBoy1981]

Did someone say pink?

http://www.born-to-fly.com/flying/mikez.jpg

 

[Baja]

Like many people, I have busted a checkride and received a pink slip. Here are a few questions that I had about it:

1. What does the FAA do with their copy of my pink slip?
2. Will future employers frown upon this?
3. What should I do with the pink slip that I was given?
4. Why do exams given under part 61 and 142 have pink slips, but not part 141?

1. I think it goes in your record, but am not sure.
2. Not for 1 or 2, but only if you accept responsibility and tell them what
you have learned. Blame it on somthing other than yourself and you just
bought a bus ticket home.
3. Wipe with it.
4. 141 schools do hand out pink slips. The only ones that dont are schools
with self examining authority.

 

[Ill Mitch]

Ill Mitch

Is that Shock-G (Gregory E. Jacobs) from Digital Underground in your avatar?

GV

It is.

 

[av8rbama]

It is.

So when a doo-doo chump points his finger like a stump, tell him "step off, I'm doin' the hump."

 

[leardawg]

I had one back in the day. Never heard about it again.

 

[chrisdahut24]

4. Why do exams given under part 61 and 142 have pink slips, but not part 141?

You only get pink slips for failing practical tests. If you completed a Part 141 course (with in house examining authority) and received you're license, you never took a practical test. You take an "End of Course" test, which is designed just like a practical test, but officially isn't considered one. Bust that, and it's just another failed lesson.

Look on the back of an 8710, and you'll see they also fill out the section that says "This applicant has completed our approved _______ training course, and we recommend him/her for certification without further practical test". (Not verbatim, but something like that).

 

[Ill Mitch]

Did someone say pink?

http://www.born-to-fly.com/flying/mikez.jpg

Those are some sweet shirts. Wish our uniforms looked that cool. Ugh.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

Those are some sweet shirts. Wish our uniforms looked that cool. Ugh.

Yes, they are hot. :laugh:

 

[kneeshoe]

Thanks for the insight

 

[GogglesPisano]

Take heart. The guy who pinked you may be sitting across from you at an interview one day (on the sweaty side of the table.) It has happened.

 

[UndauntedFlyer]

Like many people, I have busted a checkride and received a pink slip. Here are a few questions that I had about it:

1. What does the FAA do with their copy of my pink slip?
2. Will future employers frown upon this?
3. What should I do with the pink slip that I was given?
4. Why do exams given under part 61 and 142 have pink slips, but not part 141?

1. The pink slip is sent in with the file to OKC and kept. A normal review of your record by a perspective employer does not show failures of practical tests or scores that were made on written tests. However, if someone really wants to do a thorough check of your file, a "Blue Ribbon" file report can be accomplished. This will require the FAA to go into your record a find and copy every 8710 form, pink slip, written test report, etcetera. A "Blue Ribbon" file is time consuming and not commonly requested or done by the FAA.

2. I know plenty of people who have had pink slips and it didn't affect much. Naturally if you flunked a P/P ride 5-years ago that is insignificant as compared to flunking an ATP check twice just one month ago. It all just has to be explained if you choose to explain it. Also, depending how you look at thinks, the failure of a CFI test is really not a failure of a “pilot” test.

3. The pink slip is to be turned in to the FAA examiner/inspector upon your re-examination.

4. This has been correctly explained by "chrisdahut24."

 

[H.Agenda]

You only get pink slips for failing practical tests. If you completed a Part 141 course (with in house examining authority) and received you're license, you never took a practical test. You take an "End of Course" test, which is designed just like a practical test, but officially isn't considered one. Bust that, and it's just another failed lesson.

Look on the back of an 8710, and you'll see they also fill out the section that says "This applicant has completed our approved _______ training course, and we recommend him/her for certification without further practical test". (Not verbatim, but something like that).

Unless they changed the rules since 2000 I believe this is incorrect...I failed the oral for my instrument. I flight planned to the wrong airport; or maybe my examiner was just teasing me, told me to come back the next day with an additional 150 dollars. Either way that guy squeezed 400 clams outta me.

 

[chrisdahut24]

Unless they changed the rules since 2000 I believe this is incorrect...I failed the oral for my instrument. I flight planned to the wrong airport; or maybe my examiner was just teasing me, told me to come back the next day with an additional 150 dollars. Either way that guy squeezed 400 clams outta me.

I'm not sure how you're experience is relevant to or invalidates my explanation.