Not if the gear isn't turned on. In both my squadrons, we used to list all our cross countries at base ops for space A. Very rarely did we get takers other than during my DH tour when I was deployed to Puerto Rico and we had a Panama det. We had a lot of Air Force guys ride us from Howard to Possey Roads and back for leave/liberty.
In fact, I used space A as a weapon against this one Air Force dickhead E-8 that worked a Howard base ops. He used to claim that our refueling with the APU on was hot refueling and would cause us massive delays while sent fire trucks out to watch. He gave us crap on many other things too that eventually caused us to go to 5 hour preflights instead of the 3 hours we were using for the anti-drug missions. I was transiting from Roosey back to Howard and he shows up for a ride as he did about every other week. I told him no. He tried to quote Air Force space A regulations to me and I told him I was in the Navy. I also told him I'd have the Ops O change the 2 or 3 weekly transit flights to enroute tactical trainers so there would be no space A if he kept acting like a dickhead at Howard. I sent him to our Maintenance Master Chief for a lesson in P-3 refueling and told him if that if he promised to quit being a dick, we'd take him back to Panama. I also told him if he broke his promise, he could expect no more P-3 space A flights for at least the next 4 months while we were deployed, that we would ensure the powers at Howard learned why, and that we would ensure the P-3 squadron that replaced us knew the story. He relented, got the ride and life was better with the 3 hour preflights returning.
