which following the failure of the bespoke programme (which I had always understood to be much later than 1997; I thought 2004...
It is documented that the initial trials were commenced in 1994, and concluded in 1997. MoD then decided to procure the system with an in sevice date of 2004. This "bespoke" system was persued because of the percieved problems with TCAS, as I indicated in my ealier post. It now seems that we are back to the 1994 position.
The whole thing was summed up by the DG MAA in 2010 when he reported "Incremental mitigation of this chronic risk, which has a high 'societal concern' factor, has suffered protracted delays over successive PRs since the 1998 SDR.
I am not against the TCAS system, it is just that if it is OK to install it now, why not 20 years ago; the basic system has not changed that much.
Let's see if the SI contains this information.
DV