Trying to let his thread die, but I keep dragging myself back.
Use any influence you have as a party advocate to get the Ascent contract cancelled outright as an intolerable mess, and leave DHFS & the Tucano fleet to plod on until a realistic business model can be introduced.
Rather than the ping pong messages we have on this thread in which some career protective folks are refusing to take their head out of the ground v those who are passionate about creating/maintaining an effective and realistic aircrew training pipeline, we need the MAA to man up and execute the positive Flight Safety mantra that they were established for. ALARP does not mean fingers crossed until I am posted. Anticipating an accident/incident may well be morbid, but I can recall times when aircraft fell out of the skies on an almost weekly basis, and nothing justifies the slightest threat of returning to the bad old days, especially not civilian shareholders dividends.
I am a big fan of "Any doubt = No doubt" and quite clearly all is not right on a multitude of levels.
Time for a letter to my MP & the Defence Minister I think.