Originally Posted by
anchorhold
Jayand, I can confirm that before flying in a Hawk, I was well briefed on ejection over sea, the only difference was that unlike RAF pilots I did not actually do the 'wet drills' but was fairly confident of the drills. To add I was also bried in vacating the aircraft in the event of the ejection seat failing, clearly you need height for that.
Agree with you 100% anchorhold. Having also flown the Hawk from Valley as a civvy P2 the pre flight drills and medical are exemplary .
To answer Mainjafad I cannot speak for todays regs but in the past quite a few civvy pilots with media connections and RAF groundstaff got to fly in the Hawk.