I think 30 years ago we didn't have a system like this, and then someone came along and said, “Let's have a system where the pilots and the line people can come along and openly report, and it's not going to be held against them.” Now I'm hearing that people are suggesting, “We want to change it. We want everyone to know what's going on”. You're defeating the purpose of the confidentiality there and not having it known.
The carrier will get these reports, called air safety reports. When they come in and do their PVI, or performance validation inspection, they look at how that carrier handles those reports.
I get the air safety reports sent to me every day, so I'm part of that three-legged stool. If I'm not happy with how the carrier's handling those reports, I go to them with the stats and ask, “What are we doing with these?” There are other mechanisms we can use to carry them on further.
Now when Transport does their audit on Air Canada or whoever they are doing it on, they have these reports and they ask what do we do with them? “Well, we took this report. We mitigated the risk”. The HFACS classify them. So they put a level of—I won't say a level of blame—but they say, “Well, maybe it's not the pilot flying the airplane. Maybe it's further up the ladder there”.
So, the system is taking care of itself. What are you going to glean from my writing a report saying that I took off; I had a hydraulic failure; I landed. Why do you want that?