Corrona:-
perhaps some one could elaborate on the pre "late 80's" airworthiness system and explain exactly what it was that was done to that system.
Someone already has:-
https://sites.google.com/site/milita...-authority-maa
dervish had already posted the link above my post. With the nights drawing in I commend it to anyone who wants, like you, to understand
about what existed before and the real reason we find ourselves in the apparently crazy position we are today.
It was nothing less than deliberate sabotage of UK Military Airworthiness, perpetrated at the highest levels of the Royal Air Force in order to achieve a short term financial solution to fiscal incompetence... also perpetrated at the highest levels. Its long term consequences have been tragic and profound, witness as you say the chaotic situation that pertains today.
What's to be done? First, the RAF has to face up to and own up to what was done, the cover up has to end now, and the MAA and MAAIB have to be made independent of the MOD and of each other. Then, and only then, can the work of airworthiness reform begin. It will take a long time to do that, which is ironic given that the damage was done by just a few men issuing a few illegal orders over 25 years ago.