Tuc/SW
My negative views on the safety and airworthiness process are based on many years of seeing people and organisations make unjustified assumptions. The processes we are talking about, eg Def Stan 00-56 and JSP553, have for many years been maintained and updated by people who are quite frankly, incompetent. Now, if we accept that they haven't been properly applied by IPTs etc, then they haven't been proven.
There are numerous examples of where the guidance is either poor, misleading, ambiguous or non-existent. I go back to my statement, that it is a shambles. Nothing less than a complete dismantling of the current system and rebuilding an appropriate system is acceptable.
Merry Christmas
Safety_Helmut