Originally Posted by
VictorGolf
Naive question from a civvie PPL but other countries have Hawk fleets so how do they handle this problem?
Since the 1980's there have been better Bang Seats available for Hawks (Mk10 L / Lightweight etc) which did away with the fairly dangerous scissors shackle etc/Top Sear Pin and were 100% gas operated.
Inexplicably MOD have never asked for these safer seats to be modded/fitted to Hawk Mk1's in spite of the fact that MB offered to fit to Hawks and that the Tornado Fleet was updated to gas operated top sear type seats.