Good post, tuc. Concise, factual, and directly related to Air Safety. Now what would be the chances of an article along the same lines appearing in Air Clues? None of course, which says everything about the parlous state of Air Safety, and therefore Flight Safety, in the Royal Air Force of today.
Unless and until the RAF gets serious about Air Safety and backs the reform of the MAA and the MilAAIB so that they can become independent of the MOD and of each other, Air Clues might as well go the whole hog and publish simply as a comic strip, with all the Spry characters featuring. After all, that is something that it does quite well!
