Originally Posted by
Flying_Sarah747
Another thing...What actually happens in these ARI's??? I've not had the pleasure of having one!What happens if it is conducted in your absense? Is that a bad thing? Surely the same outcome will be achieved whether you're there or not, that being you're put into phase one of the 'process' (Please do excuse my ignorance on these subjects, I've not really taken much notice until now)
If it's anything like mine was, you'll find out about it accidently on your days off when you check your roster on the off chance your upcoming standby's have been changed. You'll then arrive to be handed a letter that "was" going to be sent to your home address telling you that you can have someone to accompany you. At that point, you'll be asked if you'd like to reschedule the appointment to arrange someone to be with you, probably in the hope that now you're there, you'll just want to get on with it on your own. Then just to add insult to injury, they will be most surprised to learn that one of your sickness's involved you being taken off the aircraft down route despite the fact that all the incident reports were done and the aircraft went out with 3 crew and came back with 2 (another sore subject!), so will discount this sickness making the whole thing a waste of time! Surely that should have already been on record. After all, they seem to manage to pick up when you've gone over your crew card limit quickly enough!