Easy street:-
One other thing - it's the Military Aviation Authority so it can focus on whatever aspect of an accident it feels appropriate, not just airworthiness!
If that's aimed at me, Easy, I wasn't implying that it was called anything different. What I was trying to say is that UK Military Airworthiness Authority is vested in the MAA.
There would be no point in it being
called the Military Airworthiness Authority for the simple reason that it doesn't do airworthiness, for the simple reason that it doesn't get airworthiness. If it did, it would cut itself adrift from the MOD and from the MAAIB and get to reinstating the enforcement of the perfectly good regulations that tuc speaks of, instead of wasting its time and effort in writing new 'workaround' ones.
It is a matter of great urgency that it be independent of the MOD and of the MAAIB, for only then can we expect it to take airworthiness seriously enough to carry out its principal function, ie to ensure that avoidable accidents are avoided. Ditto all the above with the MAAIB.
Self Regulation Doesn't Work and in Aviation it Kills!