EdSett100
Why don't the MOD ask the experts are the designers who put the ducts in the engine compartments then. Why spend thousands and thousands asking QQ to do reports to then turn round and say sorry we are ignoring your advice.
Having read the report on XV235's incident it appears there are no Nimrod experts at Kinloss either:
RAF Form 765B (Revised Jul 05)
g. The tradesmen involved in the rectification of XV235's leak in Sep and Oct were relatively inexperienced on the Nimrod ac and neither had previous experience of working on Avimo couplings. Furthermore, the supervisors of these tasks had not been trained on Avimo couplings. The importance of pipe alignment and stress, differing pipe lengths with the same part number, joint spacing and all types of coupling assembly and locking must be emphasized through training. The training requirement for FRS couplings had already been identified following inconsistencies noted in coupling locking by the XV230 BOI. After consultation with, and support from the Nimrod IPT, a Training Improvement Form (TIF) was submitted to TDF by the NLS Prop Trade Spec on 27 Apr 07. The TIF recommendation was supported by OC TDF and sent to SOS Evaluation on 11 Jun 07. A reply was received from SOS Evaluation, RAF High Wycombe, on 6 Sep 07 stating that they had carried out an investigation and had been assured by NIMS that the training was adequately covered in the propulsion course at Kinloss and suggested that if the training was still considered to be unsatisfactory then an external validation should be completed. Further investigation by the Prop Trade Spec revealed that the NIMS training was insufficient providing only an overview of couplings but the detailed maintenance requirement of fitment and assembly was lacking. On 7 Sep 07 a further explanation of this urgent training requirement was e-mailed to SOS Evaluation by the Prop Trade Spec; OC FSW also sent an unambiguous e-mail on 7 Sep 07 giving the TIF his full support. To date the Prop Trade Spec has received no formal response from SOS Evaluation with regard to the TIF.
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