II not really, the HFDM can only check compliance with the SOPs as they stand, and only in terms of the flight path and not the briefing, CRM etc.
It will only detect a "near miss" if the flight path deviates from normal, and before this event, most of us would have said that an NPA was a pretty straightforward thing and not prone to "near misses". But the point of good SOPs, CRM etc is not to make most of the approaches good ones, that happens naturally, but to cater for the very rare times when all the holes in the cheese line up.
Anyway, I would say CHC have the best HFDM system of the bunch, although HFDM on the L2 is difficult due to some daft design decisions by EC as to what is recorded.
Last edited by HeliComparator; 6th Sep 2013 at 11:49.