"Chip Jones" wrote in message =
It's all a huge can of worms better left unopened, IMO.

It seems to be opened already. Being privy to our union's safety reports, I
know that PDs without loss of seperation are being investigated much more
frequently in recent months. Most of these result in counseling and
training. That is good for safety as most of these reports involve the lower
rung of the professional spectrum. However, I am old school like yourself
and believe that we shouldn't be forced to play policeman. We all have bad
days. I still carry NASA forms in my flight case. The nature of NASA forms
is too coerce pilots and controllers into telling the whole story of what
went wrong so that it can be fixed. Pitting ATC against aircrews could
ultimately prove to compromise safety as the communication breakdown imposed
by defense lawyers will not allow the full story to come out and therefore
no meaningful data can be gathered to improve safety for the future.

D.