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Old 10th Mar 2012, 17:14
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Chugalug2
 
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Uncle G:-
Now it seems to be more about how/what to write in your report to appease the MAA.
You might just as well substitute MOD for MAA, for they are one and the same in effect. What was written to the former in 1994 re the Chinook Mk2 FADEC did little to appease then I fear. Though BD refused to fly theirs, due to uncommanded FADEC power ups/downs and S/D's, and placed in writing their urgent plea, that those being flown in RAF Squadron service (thanks to an illegal RTS) be likewise grounded, it went unheeded. The very next day 29 people perished on the slopes of Mull.
Unless and until airworthiness provision and air accident investigation be placed into the hands of an independent MAA and MAAIB, both of the MOD and of each other, risking one's life in Air Testing so that you may then be ignored seems somewhat pointless to my mind.
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