.. and gives both flightcrew and maintainers a measure of protection at the enquiry.
It is very illustrative to have a looksee through the Nias BOI report for the Australian ADF ... those who have not been in an adversarial legal stoush should, at the very least, contemplate how they might conduct their story telling in such a forum ....
.. remembering that, in the QA-centric view of the world .. if it's not written down .. it didn't happen ... this has hung a great many good folk over the years ..
For my sins, I am involved in MR paperwork to a significant extent these days .. I exhort (sometimes plead), with both operators and maintainers, for folk to write it down ... if an extra tree is used up in paper over the life of an operation .. then that is an acceptable price to pay for having the information and audit trail ... if the pilot thinks he might be thought foolish .. I assure him that that is not the case .. as the last couple of posts have shown .. the maintainers need to have the story if they are to have much of a chance to figure out what the problem is .. the pilot should err on the side of novel writing .. and then let the maintainer sort out the wheat from the chaff ...