Originally Posted by
chevvron
The seat pins are stowed along the right hand side of the canopy and if any of the stowages are empty when the canopy is shut, the flight line mechanic will not allow engine start.
Sorry to be a little pedantic Chevvron but historically the Hawk see off man would be on the port side for engine start,there is a stowage block for 8 pins on the port side between the cockpits (at the rear of the front cockpit),originally the other 2 pins per cockpit were stowed on the port canopy rail but that was modified in the 1980's (?) to have a flip up stowage on the port instrument panel glare shield (when pins not stowed the bright yellow stowage flipped 'up' to be highly visible to ground crew).
Red Arrows I believe retained the original canopy rail stowages because the glare shield had smoke lights mounted - also XX341 (Astra) at ETPS retained the original canopy rail stowage due to modified cockpits.