We seem to be forgetting that these aircraft were never designed to the current levels of Safety as per decreed in JSP550 srs ..These are legacy aircraft and hence it is up to the individual platform to declare their own levels and get stakeholder buy in.
WRONG !
JSP 553 and Def Stan 00-56 cannot lay down hard and fast levels of safety, the RAF operates such a wide diversity of equipment. Guidance is taken but the Operator and the Technical Authority set the targets and measure against them. These levels set the policy for management of risks with any significant hazards assigned to the appropriate owner.
WRONG AGAIN ! The JSP553 is a mess and the people responsible for it are largely incompetent. Def Stan 00-56 has NEVER sought to lay down hard and fast levels of safety, NEVER ! Read the standard, both issue 2 and issue 4, if you still don't understand drop me a PM, and I will explain it for you.
JSP 553 is a Regulation but if they regulate on something that cannot be achievable, an alternative may be justified and authorised for use.
Agree wholeheartedly with Chug on this. r supwoods, please tell me you have nothing and have never had anything to do with the regulation of airworthiness ?
MOA
Given your obvious lack of understanding of safety engineering, I suggest you prevent yourself from posting for a little while longer.
I sympathise with family and friends who are not happy with the specualtion, it is not helped by those who post whilst knowing so little. Unfortunately many of those who know and understand so little are often the people making the decisions. Try to understand the real underlying theme, read the posts of Tucumseh, Chugalug, Safeware, The Swinging Monkey, Nigegilb and myself, we are people who understand the system and where it is failing. Military Aviation Regualtion is failing, it is a broken system. For those who have read and studied major accident reports such as Herald of Free Enterprise, Piper Alpha, Clapham Rail Crash, Challenger and many more, the organisational failings reported are shockingly similar.
Safety_Helmut