SS:
Practically I'm not sure how it works / will work.
Don't torment yourself any further Small Spinner, as it doesn't work/won't work. It is instead all smoke and mirrors. Unless and until the MAA (and the MAAIB come to that) is separate, removed, independent and outside of the MOD, UK military airworthiness provision will remain compromised and unfit for purpose. An independent regulator and investigator is as essential to military as it is to civilian aviation. If it had been so then many fatal airworthiness related military air accidents involving Sea King, Tornado, Chinook, Hercules and Nimrod aircraft might well have been avoided, not to mention that we could still have an MRA capability. Perhaps most importantly of all, some 62 people could still be with us today.
Self Regulation Never Works and in Aviation It Kills