Just read it - heads should roll in MoD - another preventable death in service with a Service Inquiry and a Coroners Inquest failing to point the blame where it actually lies. (yes I know neither is there to apportion blame but when so much evidence is covered up or excluded, someone should be brought to account)
The bottom line? You get as much Flight Safety as you are prepared to pay for and the RAF has clearly run out of money....................
I'm not sure current lack of money is the culprit, though the more there is of it the better of course. The causal theme running through all of David Hill's books is the cover up of the fatal damage done to UK Military Air Safety in the late eighties/early nineties by certain RAF VSOs looking for a short term financial saving. What they managed to achieve was long term damage to UK Military Air Safety. Airworthiness is a delicate plant that must be carefully nurtured with the constant attention of professionally trained and experienced engineers. To ensure that the money it would normally take to enable that could be siphoned off to pay for their follies, those VSOs made certain that those same engineers were replaced by untrained and inexperienced apparatchiks, and just to make sure that they remained untrained and inexperienced the Regulations were pulped. This madness was the beginning of the cover up and succeeding generations of the Star Chamber have kept it going rather than come clean. The resultant airworthiness related fatal air accidents have been recorded in the many accident threads appearing in this forum and of course David Hill's books.
We have a classic chicken and egg situation here. The reform needed can only come about if UK Military Air Regulation and Accident Investigation are made independent of the MOD and of each other, but as long as the MOD controls them the cover-up will continue. It needs leadership to break that log jam and make reform possible. Meanwhile the canker that killed Jon Bayliss will go on killing. Perhaps even more alarmingly it is infecting every fleet, new and old, for lack of the professional TLC that airworthiness requires. One day the RAF and FAA will again have to confront another Air Power for Supremacy of the Sky. Unless reform is enabled they will do so with one arm tied behind their back. If that all sounds rather hysterical then read David Hill's books and decide for yourself. I commend them all, the latest being A Noble Anger, and can be found in Kindle or Paperback versions down a South American river a mere click away.