I agree, there is a systematic fault that brings up this type of CAS and that’s part of the discussion. Let’s have a separate thread about the MAA and its faults. What, there are plenty of those? Really?
I am overjoyed that we share common ground at last MG, but if you agree to open out the discussion from the CAS to the RAF and its supposed systemic faults aren't you becoming part of the heresy you accuse me of? This CAS (and the RAF's leadership in general) is as much a symptom of that systemic fault as is the dire lack of Airworthiness. You approve of discussing the first symptom here but not the second. Now why, I wonder? They are trees in the same wood and they all need to be seen because they all can kill. Certainly lowering standards of aircrew recruitment in the name of 'positive discrimination' will kill just as surely as lack of airworthiness does. Covering up the latter has already killed too many. This isn't a parlour game!