I apologize for responding in English, but I was born and raised in Newfoundland, and forgive me.
There are two issues. It's the actual reports and the culture of flight safety reports and incident reporting, that they must be used and used for safety only. As I emphasize, it is the very rock and culture of.... When I was a “baby” air force pilot, the very first thing I learned was that if I saw a problem, I reported it fully. As long as I'm not doing anything wrong, intentionally deliberate, or professionally negligent, the report will be used for safety and not for anything else.
So, we need to make sure there are regulations. You folks would know better than I where those regulations need to be, to prevent the misuse of those reports. We're not saying that they need to be hidden. We're not saying that people can't see them. But we would argue that only people who are trained, and who understand what they're looking at, should be allowed to see those reports that have been written, with complete and utter honesty, to help protect safety.
The second part of that is the flight data management. Right now, the amount of data we can collect from an airplane is incredible. I'll ask Ed to tell you about that in one second. We can create and produce a lot of data about flights—in flight, as they're landing, and all around. There is nothing; there are no regulations and no protections for that data. So, when I'm flying an airplane, if you want to collect data about how I have performed my duties on an airplane, especially in the event of an incident, that is not protected at all. The only protection we have is an agreement in our contract with our employer to use it for safety only. And I might add—