I have been ploughing through VPF and safety management. It is complicated and I am getting the impression that we are paying lip service in certain areas. Would like to ask one question of the experts. What is the point of all this if a senior officer can turn round and send in crews on grounds of "military risk" thereby negating all safety management measures? Would the senior who did this at start of Afg still have to do his sums? So, would there be a record of this? We need self-protection measures in all Hercules and AT ac to protect the crews from their own commanders. Sad but true.
The canned letter from James Gray makes some surprising claims that we are looking into. He had better be sure of his facts or he will surely be in a lot of trouble. And it is not looking good so far.