Having also done a catch-up of several pages of this sorry saga one conclusion comes leaping out, a major failure of management to plan, brief and control the changes, regardless of the justification for them. It is obvious that those required to impliment the new procedures were not given time and maybe little guidance as to how to introduce them as is shown by the variety of methods between teams. Such confusion is a condemnation of management training in the RAF and perhaps points to a need for more care in deciding appointments in these manpower critical times. I recall an expert specialist engineer who had to get his SENGO tick but was sadly a total disaster when confronted with the day to day control of people, it is difficult to avoid the feeling of deja-vu.