ATX PLT FALSIFIED HIS TRAINING RECORD WHEN HE SIGNED THE TRAINING RECORD THAT ALL SPECIFIED TRAINING HAD BEEN RECEIVED EVEN THOUGH IT HAD NOT.

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THIS SIT DID NOT OCCUR IN AN ACFT. IN FACT; IT DID NOT INVOLVE ACFT OP AT ALL. I AM WRITING ABOUT THIS SIT BECAUSE I AM SURPRISED HOW NAIVE I WAS IN SIGNING MY TRAINING RECORDS. I WAS ABOUT TO TAKE AN ORAL FOR A PART 135 CHKRIDE WITH A DESIGNATED EXAMINER AND AN FAA INSPECTOR. WHEN THE DESIGNATED EXAMINER EXAMINED MY TRAINING RECORDS; IT WAS FOUND THAT I DID NOT HAVE PROPER INSTRUCTOR SIGN-OFFS. THIS FLAGGED THE FAA INSPECTOR TO LOOK AT MY TRAINING RECORDS MORE CLOSELY. DURING A DISCUSSION; I HAD TOLD THE INSPECTOR THAT I DID NOT PHYSICALLY DISCHARGE A FIRE EXTINGUISHER DURING TRAINING; HOWEVER; I WAS INSTRUCTED IN THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF FIRE; DIFFERENT CLASSES OF FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; AND THE USE OF THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER WAS DEMONSTRATED. THE INSPECTOR SAID THAT I SHOULD HAVE PHYSICALLY DISCHARGED AN EXTINGUISHER. MY PROB WAS THAT I HAD SIGNED MY TRAINING FORM TO INDICATE THAT I HAD SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE FIRE EXTINGUISHING PHASE OF THE TRAINING. WHEN I SIGNED MY TRAINING FORM; I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT WE HAD RECEIVED THE PROPER TRAINING IN FIRE EXTINGUISHING. IN THE DISCUSSION WITH THE FAA INSPECTOR; IT WAS MENTIONED THAT I SHOULD HAVE NOT SIGNED THE TRAINING FORM BECAUSE I WAS NOT PROPERLY TRAINED. THE INSPECTOR IS NOW THREATENING TO FILE VIOLATION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE CHIEF PLT FOR FALSIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS AND IT IS POSSIBLE THAT I WILL BE INVOLVED. TO ME; THIS SIT IS 1 MORE EXAMPLE OF HOW A PLT'S LICENSE IS CONTINUALLY THREATENED WITH A VIOLATION. I HAD HONESTLY SIGNED A TRAINING FORM TO INDICATE THAT I HAD RECEIVED INSTRUCTION AND LATER FOUND IT WAS NOT THE CORRECT TRAINING. IS THIS FALSIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS IN THE EYES OF THE FAA? I DO NOT KNOW. MORAL OF THE STORY -- KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SIGNING.