Since the Grob is the sole provider of EFT for all 3 services the airworthiness and operational reliability must be beyond doubt.
The BBC, the Times and the Daily Mail have all carried lengthy reports regarding the grounding of the entire fleet. In one report a defence official describes the operational reliability of the aeroplane as "a fiasco".
There are 40 AAIB incident reports on this type.
The press also express concern that there is a backlog of over six months of student pilots waiting for training and this is now concerning politicians and rightly so.
This Indian Air Force experienced reliability problems with the HPT-32 and now this aeroplane has been replaced by the Pilatus PC 7 MkII.
No doubt the highly skilled staff of the MOD procurement office will have anticipated just this sort of "road block" in the training requirement and have carefully worded clauses into the agreements with service providers to get out of this mess quickly. Now is the time to evoke them (doubt they exist
) I would say.