Quite a good letter from John Thorogood in the P&J this morning. He makes a very valid point about the seemingly amazing failure to use HUMS properly - again!
I wonder what is behind it. Without knowing any detail my suspicion is the usual one of the "old guard" in engineering, who fully understood how to be good engineers and the importance of HUMS, booted out / retired / retired early due to getting burnt out, and replaced with cheaper inexperienced newbies who don't have quite the same ethos or ability to stand up to ignorant management. Speculation, I'll admit. But...