On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:09:01 -0700 (PDT), Clark
wrote in
:

On Jun 16, 10:54 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
Sign Up to Receive NASA Flight Safety Newsletter E-mail, Surrender
Your Privacy

Hey, at first glance it looks like NASA/ASRS are moving into the 21st
century by distributing their newsletter via e-mail:

ASRS CALLBACK GOES ONLINE
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#198111)
The NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) has gone online.
Now from the ASRS website, pilots can receive CALLBACK in their
inbox by signing up online
(http://visitor.constantcontact.com/e...73741327&p=oi).
The monthly safety bulletin includes excerpts from ASRS incident
reports with supporting commentary as well as occasional research
studies and aviation safety information. The ASRS website
(http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/) also offers an online database and
Electronic Report Submission portal that accepted 45,000 reports
from pilots, controllers, mechanics and flight attendants last
year.

But then things get a little murkier:

Email Privacy Policy
http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving...vacyPolicy.jsp
Use of Web Beacons

I'm the one that initiated promotion of their recent improvements.

Are you saying that you were the one who prompted the use of "Web
Beacons" by ASRS? Or are you referring to other "improvements?" If
so, what might they be?

There's no conspiracy, sorry.

Why does ASRS find it necessary to pay to track the CallBack
readership's activities?

Just a solid 30 year old program that gathers information on events
to improve safety of the National Airspace System.

I'm aware of that. That's not an issue I raised.

Only 35 percent of the reports deal with non-conformance to FARs,
and most of those the FAA would never have been aware of.

What do the other 65% deal with? Non-conformance with FAOs? NMACs?
Company policies? Military regulations?

I talk with the folks there and there is nothing higher on
their list of priorities than protecting the identity of reporters.

If their priorities were any other way, they'd soon be out of work for
lack of participants.

It is too bad that we live in a blame society, because there is a lot of
information we will never know about because of that blame culture and
the litigious nature of our society.

It's just an inherent aspect of the system.

There are a lot of things in life that are unfortunate due to mutually
exclusive compromises. If you remove the right to litigate, you may
learn some information, but justice will not be served. Conversely,
....


But you offer some excellent information here, thanks for posting it.

You're welcome. And thank you for providing your input on the
subject.

If you have some suggestions for them, they would be glad to hear
about them.

Fly Smart
Kent

I suggest they lose the "Web Beacons" unless there is some redeeming
benefit; it seems counter to their image of impartiality.

I may begin using some of the CallBack stories as seed material for
discussion here in the future.