carb icing/CAA awards

[BigEndBob]

Reading through Gasco Flight Safety see editorial emphasis last issue seems to be carb. icing related subjects.

Would the CAA be better off spending money on this than wasting money on the award scheme they set up.

How many of those full colour brochures are are going to be falling out of your copy of some aviation mag. into the bin, at what cost, just so that the CAA can join the MTV, Bafta, Oscar brigade.

[DFC]

Many "safety awards" are rather dubious.

They are more used to advertise than to award safety........after all the CAA has for years promoted the saying that "safety is no accident"....but most recipients are as a result of some form of accident or incident.

Not in any way saying that the recipients didn't do well.

However, a UK Flying Mag hailed the pilots of an aircraft involved in an accident as heroes and complemented them at length for saving themselves and being such good pilots...................only for the official accident report to point the finger at departing without enough fuel to complete the flight.

Of course the CAA state that they will always prossicute pilots who run out of fuel in flight (quite rightly so).....so the safety circle is again back with the CAA.

99% of airproxes and incidents worthy of recording are unreported..........perhaps the CAA should reward the reporters of incidents because that is how we all learn.

Regards,

DFC

[slim_slag]

99% of airproxes and incidents worthy of recording are unreported..........perhaps the CAA should reward the reporters of incidents because that is how we all learn.

or at least not go after their ticket if there isn't an accident, like with the Nasa ASRS programme, which provides very thought provoking info