dervish:-
Somebody who's been there and done it answers, then others debate which wheel to reinvent first.
Amen to that, dervish. It seems to this uninformed outsider that the problem here is the MOD. Unless and until it is reformed from top to bottom, it will go on wasting lives and treasure unimpeded. I contend that of the two the former is by far the most important to stop. As a start that requires that the MAA, which boasts that:-
It ensures the safe design and use of military air systems,
be made separate and independent of the MOD in order to do just that. Ditto with the MAAIB, which must in turn be separate and independent of the MAA. That will start to arrest the avoidable fatal accidents that the present incestuous system facilitates. To do that will mean exposing those who presided over the subversion of the Mandated Regulations, which have been airbrushed out of sight and out of mind as tuc says. In short the VSO Star Chamber must be stopped from covering up such illegality. That of course will be only the beginning of the beginning, but the more it is delayed the more lives the corruption will cost.
The MOD dragon needs a St George to go to work on it, not a wheelwright.