Originally Posted by
PiperCameron
And that was serious enough to warrant an Incident report?? In Class A or C maybe, but unless someone is wanting to make an issue of the piloting skill of the poor unfortunate at the controls, surely there's something else going on here..
It may have been reported by an overly zealous Safety Manager. They do occasionally need to be seen reporting events, as a total lack of minor incidents can look a bit sus come audit time. It gives some people the warm fuzzies to have safety meetings etc, and occasional minor reports can create a smokescreen for more serious stuff, which doesn’t always get to the authorities.
(sorry for the cynicism; not making any accusations here, as I know nothing of the operator or even whether they have a safety department, but I have seen this before…)
Or, it could simply be the way the extensive list of Reportable Matters has been interpreted by a diligent pilot. For example, it could be said that when the HSI failed, because the autopilot was unusable, this amounted to a multiple systems failure. Reporting is then a case of CYA, should your friendly CASA FOI be anal.