CAA !!!
Chug The CAA is but a shadow of its former 'engineering' self,with many of its former 'inspection' type of operations now reduced to 'audits' and more audits, and with few actual engineers out there.
More and more the real experience and expertise is with the 'operators' who see and deal with day to day incidents and have to make the system work and keep fleets flying in the 'safe' PT environment. I think a system that kept the aforementioned Mach 2 airliner in daily service must have been both capable and able to attend to maintaining standards and a commercial service together. This must have been a quality operation that could not 'fudge' the numbers and therefore has merit in the setting of a viable system that would work for the military.Do we have to have 'another' inquiry to tell us what we know already that the Military have lost their way, and need to find a way back to reality.
Clive How do you manage with 'check lists' that you cant 'biro' on your hand as per CISTRS and CBSITCB. !!!