I wouldn't run a sweet shop (or a candy store) using the Haddon-Cave Report as my guide, let alone as an Air Regulator. It was just as subverted a piece of work as the very regulations it was supposedly seeking to reinforce, and for the MAA to base its very being on makes one think of the parable of houses built upon sand.
Rather than using Haddon-Cave as our guide we should see it as part of the problem, in that it was given clear evidence of the deliberate and co-ordinated attack upon UK Military Airworthiness provision by VSOs and chose to ignore it, preferring instead to characterise that time as a 'Golden Period of Airworthiness'. Given such a brazen perversion of the facts one should be wary of accepting anything it says at face value without poking it repeatedly with the proverbial stick.
Am I suggesting that the Haddon-Cave Report was suborned by the very MOD that suborned the Airworthiness Regulations? Yes, I am. Airworthiness Regulation and Air Accident Investigation aren't safe anywhere near the MOD. They are certainly not safe within the MAA and MAAIB as presently formed. Both must be made independent of the MOD and of each other. Only then can we expect them to start doing their respective jobs unhindered.
Self Regulation Doesn't Work and in Aviation It Kills!
Last edited by Chugalug2; 29th May 2014 at 08:42.