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Old 13th Mar 2017, 06:48
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Dan Winterland
 
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The People's Republic of China was one of the first countries to have FDAP/FOQA. However, the way they use it is very different to those with more enlightened flight safety. In some PRC companies, pilots earn 'demerit points' from the flight data. Often the first they know there's a transgression is that they see their pay being docked! It's policing by data and although it does make the guys follow the rules, the issue is that they guys know the data parameters and will fly to them. They also know what they can get away with as it's not a parameter.

The net effect is a poor safety culture with no-one willing to report voluntarily and which means those errors not captured by the data (such as taking off with incorrect performance calculations) will never be known about. Until perhaps there is an accident - and even then the evidence may not be proved.

It's a poor way of using flight data and very ineffective. It's common in Asia and it's clearly the policy at saraceno's employer.
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