John, I have no gripes with editorial action; apart from the difficulties arising from the accumulation of threads around the subject and the apparent inability of many contributors to read (to use Pprune search or a web search engine), then ‘think’ before posting.
These points alone - the apparent changing human condition, could be the main lesson for aviation regulators to learn from recent accidents.
Se la vie.
The following text from ‘System Failure; learn to think differently’ is a suitable backdrop for presenting ones position:-
“A difficulty is characterised by broad agreement on the nature of the problem and by some understanding of what a solution would look like, and it is bounded in terms of the time and resources required for its resolution.
In contrast, messes are characterised by no clear agreement about exactly what the problem is and by uncertainty and ambiguity about how improvements might be made, and they are unbounded in terms of the time and resources they could absorb, the scope of enquiry needed to understand and resolve them and the number of people who may need to be involved”.
and … , (I seek to ensure that the following does not apply to me):
“… when the problem is a difficulty an individual claiming to have the solution is an asset, but when the problem is a mess that individual is usually a large part of the problem!”
Jake Chapman, ‘Systems Failure’,
https://www.demos.co.uk/files/systemfailure2.pdf
And being in the mood for quotes :-
“One of the main problems … in sharing their picture of the world with a wider audience is the knowledge gap.
One doesn’t need to be a writer to read and understand a novel, or know how to paint before being able to appreciate a picture, because both the painting and novel reflect our common experience. Some knowledge of what science is about, thought, is a prerequisite for both understanding and appreciation, because science is largely based on concepts whose detail is unfamiliar to most people.”
Len Fisher “How to dunk a doughnut.”
For ‘science’ substitute aviation, but the greater concern is if the knowledge gap, the ‘wider audience’, is within aviation.