JP:-
Can someone please tell us JM's background? JP
Coffman Starter's link above gives a clue as to what has been done here, which is to offer him a poisoned chalice that he has eagerly accepted. It takes a certain type to do that, and as often as not they have already reached the level of their own incompetence and been selected for that very reason. It is those who have made that selection and their reasons for doing so that deserve inspection.
As others have pointed out, the ACO is an excellent organisation, doing essential work for the Royal Air Force in particular, by providing the seed corn of its future aircrew and engineers. It is only able to do this thanks to the expertise, knowledge, and experience of volunteers that is given freely and willingly. I can only applaud such selflessness and feel guilty that I have not done likewise.
That this excellent organisation has been so badly served by the main recipient of its output is a comment on the RAF leadership, the very leadership that still conspires to cover up the incompetence and negligence of VSOs that infected the UK military airfleet with unairworthiness, including the gliders and motor gliders of the ACO. That same cover up extended to the Haddon-Cave report, to the extent of calling the era of that subversion a "Golden Period"! Irony it seems blooms in the corridors of power.
The Royal Air Force appears to be set upon self destruction as it approaches its centenary. "Those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad"...mad or bad?