reader8
Has this term ever been defined by MoD? I know it defined 'inexperience' in the context of engineering programme manager (which, to a civilian, is something you do after EA, ILS Manager, Requirements Manager - or used to be!). 'Qualified' to, say, CEng, wouldn't have helped Flt Lt Cunningham. One thing that would have saved him was someone who'd listened to his first lecture on threaded fasteners and how to fit them, could read the regulations he was given a personal copy of, and passed a practical trade test.