Having done a fair number of post-major full air tests, admittedly on larger aircraft, I read the Air Clues article with mounting astonishment.
One thing you never do on an airtest is to try to cut corners or be pressed for time. If there isn't time to complete all items in one trip, then you simply have to fly a second.
To leave yourself so short of fuel that only a non-standard wheels-up ILS at Waddington, followed by a brief visual transit to Cranwell was the only way of squeezing everthing in seems fraught with risk to me - particularly as Cranwell has a busy, mixed traffic circuit.
The lack of GPS was hardly mitigating; Hawks have been air tested since long before GPS was invented. A suitable TACAN box or radial crawl should have been sufficient. PPPPPP!
That the air test notes were in a clumsy format is certainly something which needs sorting, I would entirely agree.
Hindsight, I agree. But was this more a press-on-itis issue rather than a holes-in-the-cheese issue?