Flight safety is on the way up. Good show to all who recognise this.
Its all about breaking the chain, whether it be from aircrew during walk round or engine starts to, crew chief, armourer, rigger, loadie, the chap in the caravan at the end of the runway or the controller during on task.
An area where we might fall down is the 'can do' mentality. In the military we are (creditably) prone to making the most of a situation and doing the best we can given the resources we have. In the deployed operations that exist now, we are ever more isolated from our aircraft home bases, with fewer working eng shifts and fewer operating crews and far less in the way of command supervision. The upshot is that all sides of military aviation and aviation support, especially in deployed operations, are stretched and it is only a matter of time before a major incident that can directly be attributed to aircrew, groundcrew or supervision occurs. Self preservation is a natural reaction so maybe the answer has to lie in the supervision chain with regard to flight safety.
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