Rainbow
98% nonsense I would say, a number of airlines are making agressive use of the FDM to reprimand crews for small and transient excedences of the limits set on the FDM (you should know how the B73NG airspeed jumps about when it gets a bit bumpy!).
This policy is discouraging pilots from making visual approaches and is normaly found in the airlines in the gulf but one airline near to home seems to be very keen on using FDM data to punish individual crew members if an FO that I know is telling the truth.
It would seem ironic to me that FDM is intended to be a flight safety tool for gathering trend data and as a control on the people who fly wrecklessly yet some airlines agressive use of the data is having the result of de-skilling the crews for fear of being called into the office for a minor transgresion of the limits when flying visualy and/or with the automatics disengaged.