Safer? Really? Does more paperwork = safer flying?
Look at maintenance companies where the senior engineers are upstairs doing paperwork while the unsupervised trainees are doing the actual work, has this improved safety?
Tell me one way that FLYING will be more safe.
Will an SMS stop someone from flying into the side of a hill? I'm pretty sure such behaviour is already discouraged.
Personally I think the SMS will be not be a bad thing, with the proviso that it is implemented correctly, in my case we are a small company and we could easily be overburdened by the SMS especially with rapidly increasing CAA fees and increasing competition from 'private' flights, which would then have the opposite effect from its intention.