Hawk T Mk1/1A Flight Reference Cards and Aircrew Manual

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Dear Sir,

I would like to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). I would be very grateful if you could send me the last editions of the following Aircrew Publications (APs):

AP101B-4401-14 Hawk T Mk 1/1A Flight Reference Cards
AP101B-4401-15 Hawk T Mk 1/1A Aircrew Manual

I have conducted an extensive search for the requested APs in previous Ministry of Defence FOIA releases and other on-line sources without success. Therefore, I believe my request should NOT be denied under Section 21 of the FOIA - Information reasonably available to the applicant through other means.

Furthermore, as the Hawk T Mk1 is a basic training aircraft dating from the 1970s, is now only used by the Red Arrows Aerobatic team and is not in training service anymore, I believe the requested APs should NOT be withheld under Section 26(1)(b) - Information prejudicial to the capability, effectiveness or security of relevant forces.

Finally, I would like to confirm the requested APs are for my own personal, private use and NOT for any form of re-use such as commercial publication. I also understand that the requested APs will continue to be protected by Crown Copyright and that my own personal, private use is considered an exception to infringement under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.

I hope you will appreciate that I have kept my request very specific and provided additional information to assist you with bringing the cost of compliance below the limits imposed by Section 12 of the FOIA.

I trust you will look favourably upon my FOIA request and would like to thank you in advance for your assistance. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours faithfully,

Mr A.R. Evans

As an amendment to the above request, I understand that the Hawk T1 may still be in use with 100 Sqn following the 2019 Air Support to Defence Operational Training (ASDOT) cancellation. I would be grateful if you could factor this in to the above request.

Webb, Paul (Air-DRes Sec 3a1), Royal Air Force

Dear Mr Evans,

 

Thank you for your e-mail of 1 July 2020 about Hawk documentation.

 

I am treating your correspondence as a request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 with the reference 2020/07542

 

The Freedom of Information Act requires a response to be provided to a
request under the Act within 20 working days from date of receipt and we
therefore aim to respond to you by 30 July 2020. Whilst we are working
hard to achieve this, due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and the
effect on resources and necessary changes to ways of working, we should
advise that it may take longer to provide a substantive response to some
requests.

 

 

Paul Webb

Air-DRes Sec 3a1

Air Command Secretariat

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Air-DRes Sec-ParliBusiness (MULTIUSER), Royal Air Force

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Dear Mr Evans,

 

Please find attached the response to your FOI request asking for Hawk T1
documentation.

 

The documents you requested are large so I will need to send them to you
over several e-mails.

 

 

Paul Webb

Air-DRes Sec 3a1

Air Command Secretariat

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HQ Air Command

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Air-DRes Sec-ParliBusiness (MULTIUSER), Royal Air Force

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Dear Mr Evans,

 

Please find Part 1 of the Hawk T1 Aircrew Manual.

 

Paul Webb

Air-DRes Sec 3a1

Air Command Secretariat

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HQ Air Command

RAF High Wycombe

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Air-DRes Sec-ParliBusiness (MULTIUSER), Royal Air Force

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Dear Mr Evans,

 

Please find Parts 2 and 3 of the Hawk T1 Aircrew Manual.

 

Paul Webb

Air-DRes Sec 3a1

Air Command Secretariat

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Spitfire Block

HQ Air Command

RAF High Wycombe

HP14 4UE

 

 

Webb, Paul (Air-DRes Sec 3a1), Royal Air Force

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Dear Mr Evans,

 

Please find attached Part 4 of the Hawk T1 Aircrew Manual.

 

Paul Webb

Air-DRes Sec 3a1

Air Command Secretariat

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HQ Air Command

RAF High Wycombe

HP14 4UE

 

 

Dear Webb, Paul (Air-DRes Sec 3a1),

Can I thank you and your staff for the time taken to respond to this request.

It's greatly appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

Alan Evans