Being a lowly techie I was very lucky in my career fast jet wise – 30+ Hawk trips (and I wasn’t even on the display team) and one F3 trip out of Akrotiri . On that det the Boss insisted the Sqn spent an entire day just trying to fly as many groundcrew as possible. Clean jet, twin sticker, supersonic, people would pay good money for that.
I think they still do the early morning Hawk pax trips at Valley for anyone on the station; as long as you pass the medical etc, please correct me if I am wrong.