From Mr Smith’s blog, mentioned above……
“Civilian contractors at RAF Kinloss were not only not required to pass on the substantial information they had on the leaks and how to deal with them to the Integrated Project Team which oversees how the Nimrod fleets is run, they were not required to tell the RAF technicians working on the aircraft at Kinloss that the Air Publications they were working to were out-of-date and of "little, if any, value"”
This is not news, it’s been known for many years that MoD largely withdrew funding to routinely update tech pubs (just in time for the Chinook Mk2 pubs to be out of date at the time of the Mull crash). Maintaining Tech Pubs is a fundamental part of MoD airworthiness REGULATIONS. The MoD never actually denies it doesn’t maintain them, merely saying “we have robust airworthiness processes and procedures”. They do indeed, but they don’t implement them – a rather crucial omission and typical of their deceit.
It’s part of the process called “maintaining the build standard”. There are 17 core components, of which tech pubs is one. Fail to comply and you almost certainly break the airworthiness audit trail. If the Nimrod IPT don’t know exactly what I’m talking about, that’s incompetence. If they do know, it’s criminal. But, this affects everyone, not just Nimrod. Just because we have 2*s who think it’s a waste of money doesn’t mean they’re right. The quicker it’s fixed, the quicker a significant risk is mitigated.