![]() ![]() ![]() Pull the handle, and off you go into the wild blue yonder. A few reasons for that, one of which is that there has been incidents over the years where the spline that holds the arming-pin to the arming-handle having been broken, which leads the seat to be armed even if the arming-handle is in the safe position. That's one of the first things you're taught as a groundcrew on the Viper. You don't pull the handle on the ground even IF the seat is safed unless you have a damn good reason to AND is strapped in properly. Easier to replace the aircraft than the pilot, anyway. But again, if poop has really hit the fan and there's a definite risk to the pilot, ejection will happen. You don't want to drop down the side of the jet, expecially if it's running, since there's quite a bit of a blowjob waiting for you even at idle power. In case of a fire, pilots have the option of either raising the canopy manually or blowing it off, and then egressing the aircraft over the nose. If that entails the fun event of a zero-zero ejection, then so be it. If poop really hits the fan, the priority is for the pilot to get out safe and fast. Pulling the ejection-handle on the ground is done if safe egress cannot be completed in a timely enough manner to save the pilot. Pull the main or backup ejection handles (between your knees and on the righthand side of the seat, respectively, and you'll leave the premises of the cockpit about a second or so later. You have a canopy jettison-handle on the outer side of the lefhand console. ![]() You can jettison the canopy without initiating ejection of the seat. ![]()
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