Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Engagement with the Irish Air Line Pilots' Association

Mr. Evan Cullen:

In law, there are things that pilots are obliged to report. If I fly an aircraft too fast above certain speeds or too slow and get to a stall, I am obliged to report that. There are something like 27,000 mandatory reports in Irish aviation every year. Pilots reporting that they flew the aircraft too fast or too slow, that they took out the gear too fast or that they did something else they should not have done outside the parameters of the aircraft is very different from reporting that they are alcoholics, that they have a drug problem or that they have a very sick child at home and are not sleeping.