Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
I guess we don't see eye to eye on this.
The entire purpose of the ASAP program is to improve flight safety. If the same issue keeps coming up and it's a significant safety issue, it's not working. The purpose isn't to give a free pass to everyone, it's to fix safety issues. What you are describing is a program that is not functioning on the most basic level.
Obviously we don’t. But we do agree on the purpose of the ASAP. Where we disagree is on how to best use it. When you unilaterally don’t let a pilot group to use the ASAP, you stop being able to gather data that may help alleviate the situation. Like I said, there could be many crews who learn from a situation that can be disseminated to everyone else. But if they don’t file an ASAP for fear their situation won’t be covered by the program, they are not going to report it. So how does that help flight safety?
If we are talking about the same exact pilots making the same mistakes, then I’m all for not allowing those specific pilots into the program.