Thanks EAP86, I went to RAF Wyton for the original meetings on what became MAOS, and it was comical listening to what was being put forward and the surprise when industry pointed out that some of their ideas would not work. With regard MAP-01 & 02, JAP 02 & 02 as was, were included in the maintenace contracts as there was RAF personnel as part of the workforce and we had to use military paperwork, F700 etc, on that score civilian companies had issues with that as they were wanting to run things independantly from the military, but with MRP-145 approvals and reality kicked in it was realised that this approach would be impractical.
It was also pointed out that RA AMC's quite often link to the MAP-01, so despite trying to deny the link and ignore the MAP-01, to maintain approval the companies have to comply.
Again, it does make one wonder if all this confusion is partly responsible for having the opposite effect on safety than it is designed to safe guard and improve.