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"raising an IR is quite a serious matter nowadays"
Winco, you are wrong."
Thank you santiago15 for that reassurance, because the most alarming post in the batch above was the one from Winco.
TD, the IR is the messenger, and if they had started in on shooting that then the whole system would then be shot from top to bottom! But if I know anything of the professionalism of the RAF, both aircrew and ground crew, then that part of the system that is in their hands will be conducted with utter punctiliousness. The answers that you are seeking are, I suspect, not in their domain but that of the staff levels to which their IRs are sent. Lots of messages, b...er all action! As a squadron FSO I encouraged as many IRs (SORs then) to be submitted as possible. One of our training captains obliged me to the letter, and far exceeded anyone else. He was grounded by the Station Commander as being 'Accident Prone'! Bemeddled Buffoons was Tony Hancock's description. I can think of none better.