What a load of old bo****ks!
I am sorry TD, but your credibility is next to zero at ISK these days.
TD doesn’t need me to speak for him, but I have a sneaky feeling that the MoD is chock full of aviators and engineers who wish they, and especially their superiors, had the gumption to do what he has done in the furtherance of flight safety.
If he has zero credibility rating at an air station, then God knows what they think of the dangerous morons who stand against him. I suspect this attitude, if it exists, is borne out of embarrassment that it has taken a grieving father to shake up a world that is wholly unfamiliar to him. Who benefits? Not TD – he lost a son and will never forget. You can park it in some remote part of your brain, but it’s always there and the trigger for the rest of his life will be seeing a military aircraft flying overhead. The fact that the crew may feel safer will be largely down to him.
Reserve contempt for those who did nothing.