“Just an engineer's comment but.... JPs pulling 7g and Hawks 8 - on PAX trips as well!!! Might have got away with it before fatigue meters but I don't think the riggers would be over chuffed to be doing extensive over stress checks post back seat PAX rides.”
Before fatigue meters – the Hawk does have one you know, And unlike the Tonka that can’t turn round without coming close to overstress, the limit on the Hawk (T1) is +9g, but ssshhh, because we’ve put little dayglo stickers on all the g meters so the aircrew think it’s +8!
And remember my first hawk trip as described on this thread wasn’t a pax trip but a full air test. Yes, I now know by all the rules I shouldn’t have been allowed to go (even back then) but I did and it was great. Never figured out how I got a full cat 1 medical for a year with decompression experience etc.
Signed - a current Hawk Rigger instructor.