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Graeme,
In the submission that I have made
to the Board, I have offered to prepare a draft of each potential magazine
article, based on the existing Incident and Accident Reporting system, for
subsequent editing by the CTOO in whatever way he sees fit.
My view is that each article
should conclude with a para or two of observations, conclusions and
recommendations from the CTOO or his delegate and I would expect that he
would have reached those conclusions based on the existing Reporting (or
subsequent investigation system), although this may need some additional time to
prepare.
I suggest that the main question for
the GFA Board and the Management is something like "What is in the best way
to build a safety conscious culture in the interests of all of our members" and
I say that regular factual reporting is a good way to do that.
It is my contention that it is not
correct management to say that Accident and Incident Reporting should not be
done because we are too busy at the moment.
There appears to be an underlying
theme from some who have posted on this thread that they have heard it all
before, all of these lessons are known, so why doesn't someone just write a
theoretical article or example about it. There are three points I would
like to respond to this:
1 A real example is much more
sobering and forceful than theory.
2 As a relatively new pilot involved
in Cross-Country I want to know what real world mistakes others have made and I
want to be able to learn from those.
3 It is clear that there are
a number of experienced Instructors who still make fundamental
mistakes or allow their students to make them, and I quote the couple of
examples that are used at the Safety Seminar ..... so even if those that have
heard it all before (and say that they don't need to hear it again) can, by way of example, fly past a perfectly good runway in
the circuit to get low and land short/heavily damage an aircraft, newer members
need to know about this example and be aware that they too are likely
to be tempted to do the same at some time in their flying ..... and it obviously
won't hurt Instructors to hear it again either.
Re your 2nd last paragraph, having
attended the Safety Seminar in Wagga recently, I wonder if the CTOO really does
disagree .... and I say that if it is worth travelling around the country to
present those very worthwhile Seminars, then it is certainly worthwhile
reinforcing them in the Magazine.
Mark said "Is there -really- anything new to learn that we don't already know
.....?" and I say that the answer is a definite YES. Mark
may not have anything new that he needs to learn (how good would
that be?), but I reckon that every newer member, and every other member
with less than say 20,000 gliding hours, can learn a lot from well written
real world examples of where his/her peers have made
mistakes.
Penedo said "Every "yet another" report (prepared by professionals) keeps
reminding of procedures which were neglected by the pilot and reminds me why
they were
invented in the first place .....". I also make the point that it is part of the traps of flying that you get "sucked in" to making mistakes, be it "just another circle to get that low-save", or " I'm low in the circuit but I'll be OK to fly past the cross-wind runway" ... and it is vital IMHO for lower hour(all) pilots to be constantly reminded that if more experienced pilot can get sucked-in to or simply make a mistake, I have potential to do that too. Taking the example from the Safety Seminar, if you had asked the Instructor "Do you need a refresher on circuit heights and procedures" before you fly today, I would be sure he would have said something like "Is there -really- anything new to learn that we don't already know .....?", yet the fundamental accident still happened. Regards Geoff
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