I'm sure they enjoy their job, just I don't enjoy them doing their job.
Now having a couple of hints on how seriously the elite are doing their job over our heads, yes F... them!
as far as I know many rollercoaster are 4g, I think the -0.6g feels much worse
The incident took place at Florennes Air Base in the afternoon of October 11 **. Two maintainers working on Belgian Air Force F-16AM fighter jet accidentally fired the plane’s M61 20-millimeter, six barreled Gatling gun. The 20-millimeter cannon rounds struck another F-16AM sitting nearby that was fueled up and prepared for flight. The resulting fire and explosion completely destroyed the fighter. A second fighter parked nearby suffered light damage.
On the upside, imagine what would happen if both ejection seats fired and they lost the aircraft in such idiotic circumstances
I'm sure they enjoy their job, just I don't enjoy them doing their job.
Now having a couple of hints on how seriously the elite are doing their job over our heads, yes F... them!
I think you might feel differently if your country didn't have a well trained and practiced military and some other nation decided to invade. I mean it's not like that's ever happened before...
Yeah. It's probably annoying if you live close to an exercise zone, but unfortunately it's your problem. That's not a reason to wish we had no fighter jet pilots.
Likewise if you are unfortunate enough to live close to an airport, that can be almost unbearable, but would you wish air transport were banned altogether?
Something in this whole story is wrong. Most fighter Acft have a mode selection switch or "mode selector"...which would be selected normal....if rear initiated ejection the front would stay....I'd say the Rafale would have this
In retrospect it does seem like there should be a way to lock out the ejection seat, at least if the aircraft is ever going to be carrying a less than fully trained passenger.
I'm shocked that there is both no way to lock it out,
and that they did not hammer it into this guy's head to never, ever touch the ejection handle unless it's an actual emergency. This was just full of huge mistakes all around.
they did not hammer it into this guy's head to never, ever touch the ejection handle unless it's an actual emergency
they did not hammer it into this guy's head to never, ever touch the ejection handle unless it's an actual emergencyHe wasn't strapped properly in his seat, flapped around in the breeze and grabbed some random thing to hold
That's a big oops! lol. I guess it's definitely a story you can tell people that not lot of people will be able to say they did. "You accidentally what?!"
What happens when the pilot ejects too, are those planes designed to try to gracefully land/crash or does it just keep going in whatever direction it was going with zero control? In most cases you'd pull that if the plane is already crashing though.
I think one of the worst moments for the pilot was getting out of his seat after he landed: If the ejector seat goes off while you're strapped in you are relatively safe, but it could be rather nasty if it goes off while you are removing your seat straps.
The safety pins are just a mechanical stop to prevent you from pulling the ejection handle and the drogue chute from launching, they are just there to make sure nothing hits a primer (and some explosives detonate somewhere on the seat).
They probably use something like C4 for the pyrotechnic lines so the chances of it going off on its own after the line has been severed are basically nonexistent but i wouldn't trust it if i was sitting on a armed ejection seat.