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Old 15th March 2019 | 12:29
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DaveReidUK
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Originally Posted by Judd
Instead of expressing themselves in plain English language, we see pilots aping officialese terminology when writing incident reports. For example on NASA's ASR site there was a report submitted by the captain of a Boeing 737MAX that talked about "an autopilot anomaly in which led to an undesired brief nose down situation."
In a self congratulatory report, the captain wrote: 'Systems and Procedures coupled with CRM trapped and mitigated the issue."
All I can say is WTF?.
The proof of the pudding would be if other pilots and safety professionals are having problems understanding reports on ASRS.

Do you have any non-anecdotal evidence for that ?

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