Originally Posted by
3 bladed beast
I just hope the military have got it right on this one and aren't opening themselves up to legal battles.
For instance:
if this is flight safety, will our mil personnel be allowed to fly on air tanker if their civvy pilots have beards?
And I can only presume, we have grounded any students of religious faith from flying in the U.K. as well?
How, exactly do the Navy, the airlines and the rest of the world do it?
And that's just scratching the surface.......
Alternatively, might it be the case that 13 years after the Nimrod accident, the RAF is finally applying more rigour to some aspects of safety than other parts of the aviation sector? The 737 MAX saga shows clearly that civil aviation is not the paragon of virtue that you imply, and there are plenty of other examples. Of course I expect DV and Chug to point out areas where the RAF remains behind (Typhoon TCAS most obviously) but that doesn’t mean it has to lag in all areas.