Pulse 1 raises an important point. Of course there are shortcomings at a local level, there were local shortcomings also in the Red Arrows tragedy that killed Flt Lt Cunningham, and in the many other airworthiness related fatal accidents featured in this forum. That is the point, when you deal a fatal blow to an Air Safety System the damage is done from top to bottom of the organisation, whether it be the issue of illegal RTS's or the lack of proper practice as here.
That fatal blow was delivered some thirty years ago, and UK Military Air Safety is still dysfunctional because of it; despite BoI's and SI's reporting on airworthiness related fatal air accidents one after the other, despite Judicial Reviews, despite the formation of the "independent" MAA, and despite VSO findings being overturned. Why? Because even now the reputations of certain old men are deemed more important than young servicemen's and women's lives. There can be no reform of UK Military Air Regulation or Air Accident Investigation until the real reasons for the systemic dysfunction of UK Military Air Safety is admitted to. Doing that requires a stop to the cover up and naming those VSO's who were responsible, and time is of the essence.
Until that happens airworthiness related fatal air accident threads will be a continuing and tragic feature of this forum.
Self Regulation Does Not Work and in Aviation it Kills!