tucumseh wrote:
following the instruction placed on engineering authorities many years ago to reduce the number of requests for fault investigations, how many incidents now go unreported to the proper authority responsible for maintaining airworthiness?
This is the second time that there has been reference to a restriction placed on Incident Reporting, eg Winco's:
and raising an IR is quite a serious matter nowadays
The more that emerges from this thread the sorrier the saga and the more rotten the core. When did this change to the RAF Flight Safety system occur, did it only prevent engineering based IRs being submitted, or all? Who was supposed to stock pile these IRs before bouncing up 'omnibus editions' to higher echelon. Just as the admin side of the service has been unpeeling for years, so it seems has the provision of Airworthiness. What we see now are the flocks of chickens, too numerous almost to be counted, coming home to roost. As others have said elsewhere the service needs another Trenchard to save it from disappearing up its own tail pipe. One thing is for sure it has been made incapable of assuring the Airworthiness of its own fleets and an MAA must be instituted without delay to take on that role.