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Old 8th Sep 2017, 17:34
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Kenny
 
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This a few years past but from what I recall of my time at VA, Their FDAP/FOQA program assigns a level of increasing seriousness to all events where SOP's aren't adhered to, for whatever reason....stupidity, negligence, bad luck, etc.

If something happens, at a certain level and it's decided that there's going to be an investigation by the "wonderful" VA safety department, you're automatically stood down/removed from flight duties regardless of whether you actually ended up doing the right thing or what you've been trained to do.

To be fair to VA, I think I was told it's more a CASA requirement.

Yes the crew c0cked up but they recognized the error and took correct and prompt action. Isn't that what we're all trained to do when we make an error? But like all things Australian it's far easier to make a mountain out of a molehill.
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