Correct. As the current legislation stands, it is mandatory to report all Immediately Reportable Matters or Routine Reportable Matters (as defined in the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003) involving civil aircraft operations in Australia to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB).
The GFA system requires the completion of a triplicate form; one copy of which goes to the ATSB, one copy to the RTO/Ops and the third copy stays with the Club. Section 27 of MOSP 2, which is somewhat out of date with regard to the reference to Air Navigation Act and CAIR, explains this in detail. The old CAIR is the only "confidential" reporting system described in the MOSP. CAIR was designed for people to report a matter regardless of how minor it appeared that would otherwise go unreported and included an element of 'whistle-blowing'. CAIR's "Confidentiality" was in the assurance that the reporter's identity would remain protected. Notwithstanding, such reports were not anonymous and had to contain verifiable information. What GFA does have, however, is an incident reporting system that accepts any reports, requests, complaints and suggestions which relate to aviation safety. These are not "confidential" as defined in the old CAIR scheme, but since all accident and incident reports are accessible only to those authorised to have access, there is an element of confidentiality. The only time the ATSB would not need to be notified is if it could be determined that the matter being raised was not reportable under the aforementioned Act. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Creswick Sent: Wednesday, 11 May 2005 10:16 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] more on incident management Christopher H Thorpe wrote: > Jenny Thompson wrote:- > > /Bob Hall informs me that "We have had for many years what is meant to > be a simple confidential system of accident and incident reporting > with an appropriate form designed to collect the appropriate > information. This is available from the office." How many people would > be aware of this? What data have we gleaned from this? Is it being > used? If not why not?/ > > The system referred used to be known as the Confidential Aviation > Incident Reporting (CAIR) scheme, as described in MOSP 2, Section > 27.7. This system was replaced on 21 February 2004 with the Aviation > Self Reporting Scheme (ASRS). Details can be found at > http://www.atsb.gov.au/aviation/asrs/index.cfm. To be eligible for > acceptance under ASRS, the report must be about the reporter's own > contravention. > But that is reporting to ATSB, not GFA. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
