Desk-pilot, sorry cannot let that go unchallenged!
No it's NOT a tech log entry if the "brick" is broken into but there is a follow up form to hand in at base so that the integrity of the pack is checked for future flights. (Gosh if it was a Tech Log entry I wonder what the engineers would make of it!).
Been with said company for three years and never had (or heard of) one case of missing charts etc. There is a protocol for checking that all valid charts are complete prior to leaving the crew room.
As far as I am aware there is no breach of Copywright concerning Jeppesen - if there was I am sure Jeppesen would have acted long ago!
Your comments about pilots conducting approaches at night and/or in poor wx without clear copies of instrument approaches plates are factually untrue. (And I speak as one who is more senior in years who needs reading glasses when the lighting level is lower).
So there you are - all your comments are factually untrue so unsurprisingly there is no need for the CAA, passengers or crew to be "concerned".
I am concerned. Anyone that has ever photocopied important documents and collated them in anger realises that this simply will not do. Anyone that has ever relied upon something photocopied and collated in anger by someone else with no fully engaging interest in using the copied documents realises this simply will not do. Your airline is taking the p.
As pilots you are supposed to select the charts yourselves. Photocopying erks are not trained and licensed for that task.
The fact that, 'protocol' or not, you take off with what you are given without having selected it yourselves, and furthermore on each flight are then dared to break the cellophane on the 'brick' each time you have a doubt, and the fact you refer to it as a brick not a full up to date set of charts worries
me.
No wonder we see and hear about some of you getting lost on the ground.
Would you mind telling us about the (supposedly unofficial) protocol which supposedly guarantees a full set of all charts required?