WCBH, thank you for your response to my call for Independent Regulation. Of course the MOD will resist it, so it would have to be irresistible would it not? The CAA airworthiness standards and regulation have not
AFAIK been compromised by lack of funding, but others may know otherwise. There are always incidents, the trick is to stop them becoming accidents, or if not to prevent them from becoming repetitive accidents. The Civil track record in that regard is, I would avow, superior to the Military one. HSE are the ones, are they not, who have been funding the assessment of the incremental safety case for placing a towel on the bathroom floor to step onto when leaving the bath? A case there perhaps for subsuming them into the MOD, the synergies of waste are obvious!