Well certainly moi, tucumseh! Your continuing testimony on the threads of this forum show how the regulations and procedures to provide for and maintain the airworthiness of HM aircraft have been systematically and deliberately ignored or circumvented over the past few decades at the behest, direction and instruction of senior officers. Of course Brown and Co want as much bang for as few bucks as possible. It is the purpose of those regulations and procedures to ensure that the few bucks are not so few as to render military aircraft unfit for purpose, ie unairworthy and as often as not unsafe. It is the responsibility of senior officers to ensure that this does not happen. That responsibility would appear to have been reneged on. The important thing is to reverse this dysfunction and make our aircraft safe and fit for purpose again. How should that be done? At the risk of sounding like the ignored guest at Fawlty Towers endlessly repeating his drinks order to no avail, remove all responsibility and authority for the regulation of Military Airworthiness to a separate and independent MAA with a relationship to the MOD similar to that between the CAA and the civilian operators.