Originally Posted by
SLXOwft
An Initial In-Service Support Package, to include:
• Initial Provisioning Spares.
• Deployed Support Packages (DSPs).
• Ground Support Equipment and Specialist Tooling.
• Technical Publications and Aircrew Publications.
• Logistics (Spares) Management.
• Forward and Depth Maintenance.
• Design Organisation (DO) modifications and technical support.'
(The grouping of DO [sic] mods and Pubs in that package is asking for trouble. There seems to be no understanding that non-volume-related tasks must have a separate ring-fenced funding line).
Who is meant to (a) make the materiel and financial provision and get the shopping list right, and (b) do it.
(a) Service HQs, (b) DE&S.
....using Suitably Qualified and Experienced Plebs.
Many of the problems in the report arise from not having SQEP. For example, the MAA introduced RA1205. Great, they've resurrected the concept, but part of the approval scrutiny process is assurance that it can be implemented. The MAA seems to have forgotten that failure to implement is the reason they were formed in the first place.
As Asturias says:
[/QUOTE]Same old story - cut maintenance rather than face the need for more money[/QUOTE]
We no longer have our (especially) 3rd line workshops. But that's where, historically, the SQEP came from to do all these tasks. The upshot is that in many areas (Group HQ, CFS, etc.) there are highly trained (and highly paid) pilots doing jobs like this, which are actually low-level civil service roles. Is this a secondary duty for them, or has it become their primary? Either way, how can there be any job satisfaction? Which leads to retention problems... A vicious circle of its own making, which MoD is having great difficulty breaking out of.