I understand how filling out the forms work...
The issue is I'm not clear on what air carrier representative will fill out the appropriate sections. I'm not doing this at a new air carrier for a job prospect, just simply looking to see if a specific change was made at a previous company that is reflected on PRIA.
Typically companies send you the forms with their sections already filled out. At least that's what I recall the two previous times I have submitted requests.
I just shot my current company HR rep an email asking if I can request PRIA docs through them for a check, that way they send me the forms with the representative section prefilled . Still waiting to hear back on that as I didn't get to it until later on this evening..
Oh sweet summer child. Maybe these days they do, when PRIA is seen as a burdensome step between interviewing and hiring, but in the halcyon days of the pilot glut of the last economic downturn it wasn't uncommon to get a set of several blank PRIA forms in your application packet with the following instructions: "Fill em' out, and I dunno, uhh, hand em to the chief pilot and I guess we'll send em' out?"
Here's the thing, unless you're getting a new job, you can't just fill out the PRIA paperwork and get your records. They are sent from Company A to Company B, so unless your new company wants the records, well, you're probably not going to get them that way. You do have the right to those records when a company requests them, but as far as I know, you don't have any right to them other than that. There's no way for a "personal PRIA request" because you're not a 135 certificate, 121 certificate, or 125 certificate. In the future, the FAA will have digitized all this, and all your old pilot records will be stashed online,assuredly in some Byzantine system that requires you update your password every 48-calendar days, but who knows what the new requirements will be - I think there's an AC about it, but I haven't done much with it but skim it.
Truthfully, if you want to see your pilot records, call up your old chief pilot and say, "hey uhhh, can I get a copy of my records?" And I bet they'll send it - outside of that, I got nothing for you other than get a part-time 135 job, or find a new job.
Truthfully, what could you want from them that they would have to "change?" The truth is, there's not
actually that much in a PRIA request. You don't see why someone quit/was fired unless it was for terrible piloting (in which case we have to), hell, we don't even include rehire eligibility in our packet.
Disciplinary Actions that are unrelated to a termination or release from employment, and have been imposed on a pilot by the employer, should only be reported if they involve the individual’s performance as a pilot, and have not been subsequently overturned. Other employment related actions that have nothing to do with the pilot’s flight duties resulting in a disciplinary action, but not discharge or termination, should not be reported. (49 U.S.C. § 44703(h)(1)(B)(ii)(II))
So if something of that nature has been subsequently overturned, I wouldn't worry about it - if they submit that you were fired for being a dumbass when it turns out that actually the FAA's investigation proved that you were in fact quite competent but they were just covering your ass...well, honestly let em' submit it.
Regardless, don't worry about PRIA, it's a goat-rope that has almost no bearing on your hiring unless you failed drug tests, crashed airplanes you didn't report, got fired for crashing said airplanes and didn't report it, etc.
You can look into the PRIA records for old companies you work for as long as you contact the right people, no 8060-'s needed. I just had to be persistent with the company HR folks.