Stop for a moment, all of you.
Between all of you not many of you agree with (what should be) a simple concept of either broken or not, or written up or not.
No wonder CASA front line staff have the same issues.....
I'm not CASA, nor am I ever likely to work for them, however if you lot cannot agree then what hope do they have? The FOI's that I have dealt with on previous occasions are just people trying to earn a living like you and I.
I will only add one other concept to the discussion, if only to cast some illumination of something that has been overlooked....
What does the preamble of Barrier's Master MEL/S.O.M say in relation to aircraft defects or items that do not fall into the bounds of the applicable MEL? I would suggest to most of you that without knowledge of that document many of you are piddling directly into a stiff breeze...
Regards,
OpsN.