TBM-Legend: sure - two accidents nearly 15 years apart involving a very specific capability. Probably a legitimate line of examination. With the greatest respect to your CPO mate though, I doubt he was intimately involved in the flight authorisation and AVRM process of the incident flight, particularly as it sounds as though his job is fixing them not flying them.
Are you saying that there is a wider (corps-wide) culture of 'undisciplined flying' or are you suggesting some other cultural issue? What evidence have you seen or heard of that indicates that Army Aviation treats their choppers like trucks or that aircrew think they're grunts? Once again, interested in your argument but so far you haven't made a very coherent one.
Last edited by Tibbsy; 5th August 2012 at 12:03.