Originally Posted by
Lordflasheart
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It's beginning to look as if DG DSA may have sussed a little local difficulty in confirming a full safety case for the remaining, ageing Tranche 1 aircraft, given that only they and the Hawk Mk1 are not on the 'available for sale' list
Apparently some will continue to be used for aggressor training during their remaining service life until 2025 or whenever, but 'fingers crossed' the safety case won't be publicly tested (and found wanting) in the very public way that the Hawk Mk 1 safety case has been found wanting in recent years.
If past public safety case problems and multiple unimplemented SI recommendations are anything to go by, it will be fingers and toes crossed for Hawk Mk 1 until midnight on 31st March 2022.
Except for a dozen T1s for the Reds, probably under a special waiver, with perhaps a sensible change of rules to limit circus flying to 'strictly A to B, with no shenanigans in between.' Even that might now be considered a risk too far, when safer alternatives are readily available.
That of course would not directly apply to Tranche 1 Typhoon, where it would be easy to quietly exclude inadequately trained or joy-riding passengers in any remaining two-seaters, though not so easy to safely sell them on, except for scrap.
LFH
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I’m curious why you think that Tr2/3 jets are ‘safer’ than Tr1 jets?