Safeware:
....trying to throw everything into airworthiness
Not everything quite, Safeware, but the definition of airworthiness is by design all encompassing. I seem to remember someone on this forum opining that airworthiness merely concerned engineers and not pilots, or words to that effect. Well, it certainly concerns engineers, and the sidewalling of them in the RAF and the MOD is hugely responsible for much of the mess that we have now, but it most certainly does include aircrew as well. You could have the most gold plated airworthy aircraft in the inventory, put an untrained pilot in the driving seat and it immediately falls foul of the definition of airworthy. I didn't decide that, anymore than "Flight Safety concerns you!", that's simply the way it is. Thus the complete training plan, simulators, trainers, checkers, hourly requirements, etc, should ensure that the crew do not compromise that airworthiness but enhance it. The common factor with the more familiar nuts and bolts aspects of airworthiness is of course money. The lack of it denied ESF, functional FADECs, HISLs, IFFs and AAR systems, and now it would seem crew competency. In every case though the deficient systems had to be signed off, including those relating to crew competency. That was when the Airworthiness Regulations were breached, that was when those crews were betrayed.