I don't recall if I've heard directly from pilots who have had enforcements dropped when self-reporting to the FAA - my brief time as a student pilot was 20 yea

I don't recall if I've heard directly from pilots who have had enforcements dropped when self-reporting to the FAA - my brief time as a student pilot was 20 years ago. But what I do recall is a culture of risk reduction, working the problem, an "If you see something, say something" mentality. Then again, everyone has stories of encountering errors that had become part of someone's routine. You don't run to the FAA, you ask questions. There are tough calls, sometimes. Every pilot has made potentially fatal mistakes. Every living pilot has caught a mistake before it caused an uncontrollable situation, or got lucky. Usually a bit of both... but the luck runs out.