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Old 13th Jul 2013, 06:56
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What a shame. The OP started well and then very quickly went to pot. It would be a shame if the original precept was lost or dismissed because of the rubbish solution proposed.

As nitpicker330 says there are tools like QAR, and some similar ideas for ground systems, that produce routine operation data that can be analysed for trends and undesirable occurrences and, if necessary, can prompt further reasoned investigation. What needs to be promoted is the proper use of these tools - not to strike the fear of God into a crew or a controller who may exceed some parameter. And for the whole thing to be subject to proper oversight of an operator's use of the tools.

Sadly, from my experience (albeit limited from the airborne side of things) is that the tools often are not well used, the results incorrectly used, and the supervisory agencies do little to address this. Result - some very useful bits of kit are falling into disrepute and are their use is untrusted.

The use of tools like this is going hand-in-hand with training that teaches people that in this situation you do that - removing the value of proper use of professional skills and judgement - and leading some to think that exceedance of any parameter is automatically wrong. The old 'uns amongst can see where this is headed with examples in several recent aircraft accidents. And, sadly, we are headed down the same route with ATC.
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