In case anyone wondered, i am going to bat this up to parliamentary level, but I want to be sure of my facts first,
Nige, I assume by 'this' you mean TCAS. If so good luck, for it is a scandal (along with the myriad others) that this excellent kit is not as standard on military fleets as on civilian ones. But it also points up the sad situation that is under discussion currently on the thread. I cannot believe that TCAS would not have been required by an MAA, in just the same way that it has been by the CAA. Indeed all the military airworthiness aspects of recent or current threads, such as ESF, FADEC problems, FR systems, TCAS, Flight Recorders, etc, etc amount to so many trees, whereas the better solution is surely to tackle the woods, i.e. Airworthiness Regulation. Unless and until that nettle is seized then that list is doomed to grow ever longer. Perhaps that is what needs to be batted up to parliamentary level?