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Forum: Military Aviation
4th Apr 2024, 13:57
Replies: 5,343
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Posted By Chugalug2

Just an ex AC customer here, so I'll say my bit...

Just an ex AC customer here, so I'll say my bit and then continue lurking. I was a CCF cadet and attended the local VGS and was later the lucky recipient of a Flying Scholarship. Both were a...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Nov 2020, 17:45
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

I second Airsound in his plea for you to stick...

I second Airsound in his plea for you to stick around please, Engines. We all want the same thing I'm sure, a return of Airworthiness to the UK Military Airfleets, and proper Air Regulation and Air...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Nov 2020, 20:25
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Engines :- It rather depends upon what...

Engines :-


It rather depends upon what you mean by 'primarily' and what 'it' is. If you mean what happened in the first place it very much was to do with RAF VSOs, who subverted the UK Air...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Nov 2020, 10:32
Replies: 5,343
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Posted By Chugalug2

And I in turn couldn't agree more with you,...

And I in turn couldn't agree more with you, POBJOY. DESA is part of the MOD, just as the MAA is. Both are therefore compromised from the word go. What is more notable is the way that institutions and...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Nov 2020, 23:30
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

It is indeed a national disgrace, POBJOY, but the...

It is indeed a national disgrace, POBJOY, but the scandal is much much bigger than the loss of the ACO gliders! 'They' get away with it because the Establishment has banded together to ensure that...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th May 2020, 16:24
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Thanks Engines, you paint a sombre and unedifying...

Thanks Engines, you paint a sombre and unedifying picture of a dysfunctional system that couldn't organise the proverbial piss-up if it wanted to. What I would plead for is that every one who reads...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Mar 2020, 08:31
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

All the organisations that you mention are known...

All the organisations that you mention are known knowns and easy Aunt Sally's, just as were 'Grossly Negligent' Chinook Pilots, risible Test Pilot Establishments, daylight low flying Hercules crews,...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Mar 2020, 15:08
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

I too have followed this thread from the start...

I too have followed this thread from the start and it has mainly managed to miss the point ever since. I strongly recommend those that care about the ACO, as I've no doubt we all do, to read tuc's...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Jun 2019, 13:37
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Engines, thanks for responding. With respect (and...

Engines, thanks for responding. With respect (and that is not just an empty phrase!), I feel it is always essential in regard to airworthiness to emphasise the wood for the trees. The MOD's default...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Jun 2019, 08:55
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Engines:- While I don't quibble with your...

Engines:-


While I don't quibble with your summary of the ATC Gliders descent into the present perpetual pause, I must take issue with your implication that this is a scandal solely affecting the...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Apr 2019, 06:52
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

BPF:- Then you have answered your own...

BPF:-



Then you have answered your own question, BPF, as to why British Air Cadets cannot share the gliding experiences of Canadian cadets. The latter are regulated by a competent Air...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Apr 2019, 12:29
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

BPF:- As far as I know the Canadian...

BPF:-


As far as I know the Canadian Airworthiness Authorities have not deliberately subverted and suborned their own Airworthiness Regulations. The British Airworthiness Authority (aka the MOD...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Mar 2019, 12:20
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Bigpants:- Good post. It was the...

Bigpants:-




Good post. It was the Lack of Airworthiness Authority (aka the MOD) that precipitated this crisis in the first place. Just as UK Military Airworthiness reform can only occur if...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Jan 2019, 20:23
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

S7700, the reformed MAA and MilAAIB will be no...

S7700, the reformed MAA and MilAAIB will be no sinecures, those who man them will be fighting two deadly opponents, aviation accidents and the MOD, and from day one. It won't be easy, but they will...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Jan 2019, 07:10
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Squawking, I can only state the blindingly...

Squawking, I can only state the blindingly obvious. The RAF is riddled with unairworthiness. An unairworthy air force isn't a national asset but a national liability. Of the many airworthiness...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jan 2019, 17:42
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Thank you tucumseh for a far more detailed...

Thank you tucumseh for a far more detailed explanation than I could ever rise to. :ok:

squarking 7700, I would only add to tuc's excellent post that the people who broke UK Military Air Safety saw...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jan 2019, 12:20
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

ACW342 :- It's not for lack of trying!...

ACW342 :-



It's not for lack of trying! As tuc says; Civil Police, Service Police, SoS's, MPs, Senior Civil Servants, HoC's and Lords Committees, HSE, QC's, HM Coroners, have all had verifiable...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Dec 2018, 16:49
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Illegal orders are not to be obeyed, end of! That...

Illegal orders are not to be obeyed, end of! That was what I was taught at Sleaford Tech early 60's in Air Force Law lectures. I doubt very much if that has changed since, despite the subsequent...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Dec 2018, 09:46
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Engines, how would you have advised the Reds'...

Engines, how would you have advised the Reds' engineers and pilots to react to an RTI that instructed that the seat should be serviced in situ, and that the scissor shackle nut and bolt be undone and...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Dec 2018, 23:15
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Engines:- POBJOY:- While your...

Engines:-


POBJOY:-


While your time lines are in keeping with the 'episode', ie the OP (the grounding of the ACO Gliders), that is exactly the way that the MOD wants it to be seen. That is...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Dec 2018, 15:36
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Adcuratio:- Ah, a maiden post, welcome!"...

Adcuratio:-


Ah, a maiden post, welcome!" Apologies if that's a sexist comment, so easy to fall into the pit these days...

Who, might I ask, is ever going to be invited to review the MAA's...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Dec 2018, 17:18
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Engines, excellent post as always. Thank you....

Engines, excellent post as always. Thank you. There is a common theme across all the PPRuNe Military Forum Airworthiness related threads (mercifully at least, this one is not also a Fatal Accident...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Oct 2018, 10:15
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

50+Ray:- It seems to be a trend. The RAeS...

50+Ray:-


It seems to be a trend. The RAeS threw its hat into the MOD/MAA ring when it was announced that airworthiness was not its business! Sic Gloria Transit...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Jul 2018, 17:08
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Thanks for your input, Rigga. Much appreciated....

Thanks for your input, Rigga. Much appreciated. As has been stated before, thank goodness that this airworthiness related thread isn't a fatal accident one, as has been the case of so many others....
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Jul 2018, 09:08
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

T105:- Can we finally get this right? The...

T105:-


Can we finally get this right? The issue isn't serviceability, it is airworthiness, or rather the gross lack of it. The situation passed beyond embarrassment decades ago. It certainly...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Jun 2018, 07:48
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Lima Juliet:- Ditto (albeit many many years...

Lima Juliet:-

Ditto (albeit many many years ago). I think we are getting to the nub here. The system worked in my day because everybody did their job properly. I drove the airworthy aircraft...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th May 2018, 21:49
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Great post Olympia 463! You remind us what can be...

Great post Olympia 463! You remind us what can be done by good people who have both determination and expertise. The dross that this thread instances and which reflects much that is wrong nowadays...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th May 2018, 11:10
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

tuc:- You make a good point tuc, as...

tuc:-



You make a good point tuc, as last time it was quite prepared to have the wool pulled over its eyes by dissembling VSOs, thus joining all the other official long stops in just not...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th May 2018, 19:59
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

CGB:_ The only waking up is to the fact that...

CGB:_

The only waking up is to the fact that they've been rumbled. Having cleared MOD's corridors of anyone who understood the system pre year zero, the subsequent cover up of VSO actions in...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Jan 2018, 09:08
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Thank you Sky Sports. Interesting that today the...

Thank you Sky Sports. Interesting that today the Red's case resumes in court. Do you think that the two could possibly be connected....?
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Jan 2018, 13:48
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Olympia 463:- Olympia, as tuc has so...

Olympia 463:-



Olympia, as tuc has so clearly answered your question, presumably you are now satisfied? Or do you disagree? The whole point of this thread is that the "pause", ie grounding, had...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Jan 2018, 12:30
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Good post tuc, thank you. This scandal extends to...

Good post tuc, thank you. This scandal extends to the highest reaches of the RAF's food chain, and to pin it on relative juniors would simply serve the purposes of the Star Chamber's cover up.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Jan 2018, 10:32
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

EA:- Because the MOD is simultaneously;...

EA:-


Because the MOD is simultaneously; the accused, the judge, and the jury of its own case, and because many professional aviators (ie many members who post on this very forum) don't...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Jan 2018, 11:57
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Good Post, dervish. Thank you! I take it that the...

Good Post, dervish. Thank you! I take it that the book you refer to is Their Greatest Disgrace by David Hill. It describes the systemic failures that were deliberately created by RAF VSOs in the...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Dec 2017, 18:41
Replies: 5,343
Views: 1,768,426
Posted By Chugalug2

Rigga:- No change there then. The MAA...

Rigga:-


No change there then. The MAA quotes Haddon-Cave as being its foundation. Haddon-Cave characterised the early 90s as "a Golden Period of Airworthiness", as Dervish reminds us above. The...
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