Egdg,
MUSIC TO MY EARS! I watched the flying order book go from a concise, useable document to an unwieldy, contradictory, whimsical piece of nonsense. My target for SDSR would be regulations. Once the MOD had a set of coherent, intellectually rigorous rules, appropriately applied at local or fleet level, it could dispense with layers of senior officer bureaucracy.....and probably provide a more effective service to the taxpayers that fund it.