I am absolutely floored at the warm reception I received when I joined the forum. Thanks. :icon_mi_1 I was wondering, has anyone here ever had to eject from an aircraft? If so, what's it like?
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Reaching For The Loud Handle
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phrogpilot73
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Not all aircraft have ejection seats...
I've never flown an aircraft with an ejection seat, and I hope I never do. I enjoy the assault support mission "hauling ass and trash". The biggest smiles you get are when you're pulling grunts out of the field, or showing up with an aircraft full of mail. If I could eject and did, I'd be abandoning those guys in back when they need me most.
AllAmerican75 said:
I've never flown an aircraft with an ejection seat, and I hope I never do. I enjoy the assault support mission "hauling ass and trash". The biggest smiles you get are when you're pulling grunts out of the field, or showing up with an aircraft full of mail. If I could eject and did, I'd be abandoning those guys in back when they need me most.
Not that it matters ..... but I've wished (while we're wishing) that the 747 had an ejection seat. We're SOL in that bird if you can't bring her home.
Parachutes were considered in the past ... but the passengers just didn't stay distracted for very long as the crew strolled toward the door, parachutes on, smiling and casually looking at the overhead while whistling a little tune ....
Parachutes were considered in the past ... but the passengers just didn't stay distracted for very long as the crew strolled toward the door, parachutes on, smiling and casually looking at the overhead while whistling a little tune ....
SteveG75 said:
That was my dip story from another thread. What I negelected to mention is that I was the B/N in the other jet.
I remember a bang/crunch and then trying to reach the lower handle. We had one of three jets in the squadron with command eject at that time and my pilot remebers pulling so I am assuming he got us out. Next thing I remember is the helicopter overhead. Lost my helmet and mask, FLU-8 automatically inflated my life preserver and SEAWARS automatically cut my chute loose.
Yes, I consider myself very lucky. I was 3 months into my first fleet tour.
BTW: That was my first class A. Here is a pic of the second (tailpipe came apart while in tension on the cat).
Fly Navy said:
Hmm . . . still making up my mind about that. If I eject, I get blown out of my safe metal cage and possibly end up screaming towards the ground with one or more broken limbs, not to mention the back issues. And possibly blinded if I've been dumb enough to leave my visor open. And let's hope the MDC works, too. What with all the horrible descriptions of what can go wrong if you're not positioned perfectly and strapped in just right, I'm still trying to sell myself on that little handle. Granted, given NATOPS, I have no choice.
Punched out of a prowler two years ago this Wednesday. long story short...
4 minutes after cat shot in Persian Gulf, right engine blew uo, knocked out other engine, bled out all hydraulics, filled cockpit with smoke, lit up half my fire/temp lights...
After doing a wipe out with the stick and getting no response (hyds bled out) I told the crew, "Jet's not gonna make it, it's time to get out......eject, eject, eject."
On the t of the third eject call I heard ECMO three's seat leave (Prowler ejection sequence E-3 (no delay), E-2, E-1, Pilot with .4 sec delay...pilot has 1.2 sec delay after handle pulled)
Serious temporal distortion after that. Heard E-2 leave, Tried to take mental snapshot of gauges for the inevitable investigation (6,300', 280kias, 10-11 degree left wing down, 4-5 degree nose down), heard and felt E-1 leave...could feel the exhaust of his rocket on my face. Then I was in the jet all by myself. Managed to get several complete thoughts through my brain...this is gonna hurt, this is gonna hurt, don't look down (more than one Pilot has hurt his neck looking down during the time distortion to see if they had pulled the handle), this is gonna hurt and then finally my seat fired.
My vision went immediately black, but I could feel my feet being retracted as my seat went up the rail. My head got cut up pretty badly going through the canopy (helmet got blown back once it hit windstream), and I remember a tumbling sensation and then chute opened and my vision came back. I was looking up at the other three memebers of my crew and they were all moving. When I looked to the left I was a couple hunudred yards above and behind a fireball of a jet that I was very happy to no longer be in. I decided to forgo the IROK procedures for 30 seconds or so while I watched the plane/fireball crash into the gulf (almost like something out of a movie).
Several items in/on my vest didn't quite work as advertised, but to finish up the long story short...back on the carrier 36 minutes after taking the cat shot missing one important landing in my logbook...
4 minutes after cat shot in Persian Gulf, right engine blew uo, knocked out other engine, bled out all hydraulics, filled cockpit with smoke, lit up half my fire/temp lights...
After doing a wipe out with the stick and getting no response (hyds bled out) I told the crew, "Jet's not gonna make it, it's time to get out......eject, eject, eject."
On the t of the third eject call I heard ECMO three's seat leave (Prowler ejection sequence E-3 (no delay), E-2, E-1, Pilot with .4 sec delay...pilot has 1.2 sec delay after handle pulled)
Serious temporal distortion after that. Heard E-2 leave, Tried to take mental snapshot of gauges for the inevitable investigation (6,300', 280kias, 10-11 degree left wing down, 4-5 degree nose down), heard and felt E-1 leave...could feel the exhaust of his rocket on my face. Then I was in the jet all by myself. Managed to get several complete thoughts through my brain...this is gonna hurt, this is gonna hurt, don't look down (more than one Pilot has hurt his neck looking down during the time distortion to see if they had pulled the handle), this is gonna hurt and then finally my seat fired.
My vision went immediately black, but I could feel my feet being retracted as my seat went up the rail. My head got cut up pretty badly going through the canopy (helmet got blown back once it hit windstream), and I remember a tumbling sensation and then chute opened and my vision came back. I was looking up at the other three memebers of my crew and they were all moving. When I looked to the left I was a couple hunudred yards above and behind a fireball of a jet that I was very happy to no longer be in. I decided to forgo the IROK procedures for 30 seconds or so while I watched the plane/fireball crash into the gulf (almost like something out of a movie).
Several items in/on my vest didn't quite work as advertised, but to finish up the long story short...back on the carrier 36 minutes after taking the cat shot missing one important landing in my logbook...
