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Old 12th Dec 2009, 02:12
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ahramin
 
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A couple years ago I joined a company in Canada that was far ahead of their contemporaries in implemented paper SMS. Transport Canada is in the process of gutting oversight and replacing it with SMS so they were very happy with this company.

A couple months into my employment I busted a minimum step-down during an approach. Non radar controlled environment, no FOQA monitoring, so nobody knew about it but me and the F/O. I filed the SMS report stating what had happened and why I thought it had happened (mandated abbreviated briefings, laborious and interminatble SOP calls, and others).

The chief pilot told me that it is my responsibility to follow minimums and that any further reports like this would earn me a letter of reprimand in my file.

You can guess how many SMS reports I have filed since then.

This company just passed Transport Canada's toughest SMS audit with flying colours.
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