Not really an slay thing just some understanding
Well filing a manual pirep is only for extreme circumstances whereas your sim has crashed or cigar box crashed or the save flight feature of Cigar Box doesn't save or is unable to be loaded for some reason so to file a manual pirep-there should be some type of comment to explain why the need to file a manual pirep. A manual pirep has no log at all.
We spend much effort and time designing the Cigar Box to have full and detailed flight log where as we can adjust the log features to really be a tool for a pilot IE: Recording Flap use, gear, lights, Nav/GPS use, Autopilot use, of course the landing rates etc. But or those who might want to view their log it can also be a learning tool to fine tune the aircraft numbers and actually become a better pilot even in the sim.
We can see lots from a pilot's pirep as to aircraft handling: weather, stalls, overspeeds etc. which just kick on autopilot and watch the scenery go by (handsfree) or other that never use GPS or Autopilot and fly hands on for all of the flight from a gate or parking spot to the destination gate or parking and shutdown.
Bush flying at it's best is navigating through the scenery and handling the aircraft in the bush. A bit different than flying a jet from A-Z at 30,000 ft. on autopilot.
Anyways we review every the pilots log received from Cigar Box and really we will only reject for two items whereas there are many operational items that we could consider in the sim but we are a much less restrictive VA at MFC/RTMM.
The two items are:
1). Landing rate: A landing rate over -600fpm is a no go. If over -600fpm, you would have almost had a fatal or caused injury to yourself, crew or passengers and caused aircraft damage.
The landing goal or target of -600fpm or under applies to any intermediate or mid-stop landings as well as the final landing.
2) Manual pireps. We do require cigar box pireps/logs. If your stuck with a sim or cigar box crash and unable to use save/load for some reason please file a manual but add an explanation or comment as to why a manual pirep had to be used. In all normal cases cigar box works perfect as the acars and usually there is no issue loading a flight (from either Flight Number or by bids) and usually no issues in filing the flight pirep but for a variety of reasons to create/maintain proper aircraft stats/tour records/pilot stats etc in the database it is necessary to have logged pilot pireps.
Now even if your pirep is rejected for either of these two reasons, currently there is no great penalty other than the loss of the time incurred during that flight leg.
You can still continue and progress in a tour without re-flying rejected legs. Carry on as usual. There is no stoppage and won't hold you back from the progression of the tour flights through to completion and upon completion you will be granted the tour award for the effort and along the way hopefully we learn more as we go and get better in this Bush simming adventure.
Norm