Bob UpandDown
There has to surely be a distinction between a violation as a result of bad airmanship, overload, etc and a pilot with all his senses intact doing something which he knows to be against the law?
The first should not involve punishment as Mal intent was not there.
Yes it should involve re training but you should only punish someone for knowingly doing wrong.
Prosecutions are expensive all round and really should be the last port of call.
Education is a far better route as it will help rectify even those who knowingly do wrong.
I can remember in my youth doing something crazy with a car and being stopped by the police. The officer could have thrown the book at me but instead chose to have a chat about the implications of what I had done and finished by saying that he had done me a favor and to only do him the favor of taking in what he had said.
That encounter remained with me all my life and although I did other things with cars
I never did that again.
Pace