They were VERY hot on the 'no lone zone' regs. I always wondered how the Jaguar coped with these regs as, in theory, the moment the aircraft taxied (which RAFG alert aircraft never did) the pilot should have been shot dead by the sentry if that sentry was sticking to the rules...
Maybe they expected us to walk him to the gate, then the guards could shoot the two of us
the three man principal being no longer in effect. If I remember correctly one intake blank was left in the Jag as a safety measure to prevent a rogue pilot starting up both and departing, but if you’ve ever been in a HAS during a Jag start the exhaust from the running engine used to blow any intake blanks out.
Plus starting up would raise alarms bells with everyone and he would have needed us to cooperate opening the HAS up unless he did it himself, he would then be faced with the huge electric gates to get out of QRA which he had no control over.
The RAF was also VERY hot on the “no lone” zones.