VSF
Rather like proving anything you want with statistics, if you really wanted to, you could probably find enough evidence to declare every aircraft type on the inventory non-airworthy.
I agree with this. But this raises the question of the 2 extremes – you either completely ignore the mandated regulations, or you implement assiduously. It would seem many here support the MoD’s policy that it vaguely aims somewhere in between (so why have mandated regs?) but, also like MoD, are unwilling to say to what degree the regs should be implemented or ignored.
Having been systematically denied funding to maintain airworthiness since this policy change in the early 90s (the financial cuts were applied over a 3 year period) I simply repeat my age old question – What components of airworthiness do you think are unnecessary, or can be deferred indefinitely?