In the V-Force sqn cdrs were always members of constituted crews. In maritime and AEW Shack they were always super crew. Certainly had a Nimrod OC who overstepped his authority.
Our normal MOA was 200 feet but we could, if authorised go down to 100 feet. During an exercise he was standing in the back and basically bullied us into descending to 100 feet. He didn't give explict verbal authorisation. What he did was get us to go through the decision matrix, got us to say "if authorised" and then said "you are so authorised".
Had we tipped a wing in there would have been a presumption of illegal low flying against out pilot.
In other documents " if authorised" was the prerogative of the AOC.
Give me a competent flt lt over a low hours senior officer any day.