- Incident Reporting-

All pilots hope that their flights will go without a hitch, but unfortunatley, these 'hitches' strike without warning and in the most inhospitable of places - and we're not talking spilling your coffe down your nice white captains shirt! To ensure that all incidents are notified to the Safety Department, a system of reporting is being introduced.

Some Legal Stuff

Under the The Civil Aviation (Investigation of Air Accidents and Incidents) Regulations 1996 (the Regulations), reportable occurances are:

• Accidents - occurrences associated with the operation of an aircraft, taking place between the time any persons who intend to fly, board the aircraft, until said persons have disembarked, during which any person sustains injury or the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure which affects the integrity of the aircraft;

• Serious Incident - an occurence which nearly resulted in an accident occuring;

• Incident - an occurance that affected the safety of the aircraft.

The Regulations require that all three types of occurance be reported, however only the first two types are always investigated. Incidents are investigated at the discretion of the Chief Inspector.

The CAA also operates a Mandatory Occurance Reporting Scheme (MORS) whereby accidents, incidents, defects and other situations are required to be reported. More can be found on the CAA website.

UKD Reporting

The reporting procedure for UKD shall follow, as practicable, that of the CAA MORS. Obviously, not all incidents can be reported, such as the injury of a passenger (unless you would like to assume this has ocurred, such as entering severe turbulance) and some things just won't occur in FS.

The list of possible incidents that could potentially occur would be too long to put on this site. However, such things as say instrument failures, low fuel, flying too close to another aircraft (obviously, by ATC's directions) etc should be reported.

Reporting Procedure

All reports shall be made by the captain flying the aircraft within a time period of 1 week. This shall be either via e:mail notification or the filling out of form UKDSAF1 form. Notification of an incident via e:mail will require the completion of a SAF1 form at a later date.

Once a report has been filed, the incident can be investigated and the report will be filed.

NOTE: Form UKDSAF1 does not yet exist!

One Last Thing ...

Remember this is for fun and to make the VA experience that bit more real, so whatever the incident please report it. There will be no comeback....................Honest!