Originally Posted by
Navaleye
And why for example Spanish T1s are airworthy and ours aren't and if they are not airworthy today then why carry on flying them for a couple of years.
The Spanish T1's have the great advantage of not being operated under the auspices of the MOD/MAA. As to why ours haven't been grounded immediately, history reveals they never are. Many fingers are crossed and the risk is taken (not by those exposed to it of course). Sometimes it works (ACO gliders), sometimes it doesn't (witness the many airworthiness related fatal air accident threads that litter this forum). Unless and until UK Military Air Regulation is independent and outwith of the MOD there is no reason to believe the pattern will change. Ditto all that for Air Accident Investigation (which will also need to be independent and outwith of the Air Regulator).
A once world leading Air Safety system has been brought to its knees by the malevolence and incompetence of certain RAF VSOs and, even more unforgivably, by a cover up of that subversion by subsequent RAF VSOs. The chickens have taken over three decades to come back to their perches, but they are now here to stay unless meaningful reform is enacted as an urgent priority.