Originally Posted by
snippercr
I think this is what NoyGonnaDoIt was saying, but the REAL reason for those NASA reports are to collect useful information to help us later on down the road. The get-out-of-jail-free part is just a benefit. You should full one out because that's useful stuff for NASA.
It was. But as you can tell from any discussion of ASRS, although the FAA did the program this way (with the semi-immunity) in order to keep people from being afraid to make reports, the hope of being protected from responsibility seems to be the only reason most people actually make the reports to begin with - "if there's no CYA value, why bother helping out?"