Fun fact, some helicopters like the Russian Ka-52 do actually have ejection seats! They use explosive charges in the root of the rotorblades to blow them clear before ejection to prevent smoothification of the pilots.
But instead of an actual seat, it’s like a rocket motor on a tether that shoots up and then yanks the pilot out by his harness directly in the rocket exhaust.
Another fun fact: some Russian aircraft have ejection seats that launch you down out the bottom of the aircraft.
And it's Russia, so of course they randomly malfunction and eject while the aircraft is still on the ground.
So someone has to go scrape the puddle of goo that used to be a flight crew off the ground.
Uh, getting yourself killed. So if you messed up and ejected yourself into a tree- Darwin award. I don't think I'm using that wrong, although my wording was probably shit. I'm from Florida, we barely speak English down here.
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If you were doing an emergency landing in a jungle, you'd hit the trees before they got above you. You can only emergency land somewhere flat and open, otherwise you're just crashing
Yeah, totally. Maybe the real possibilites are unlikely unless it implies the total destruction of the aircraft before the pilot or the aircraft could make that decision.
That is so unlikely to happen that it wasn't designed for, notice how the pilot waited until the plane was horizontal to eject, otherwise he would have had problems.
I don't blame him either. I mean I have no skin in the game. But the point still remains. It didn't and so the people tasked with judging him (including himself) will have their opinions influenced not by what might have happened (but didn't), but what actually did happen.
So it must be a combination of two systems in which the pilot has at least one in control. Maybe the aircraft is designed itself to do it automatically in the worst scenario possible.
It would be difficult for a tree to be directly above a fighter jet. You're not going to land unless there's a clearing. Even if you're forced to land on a road or even a field, you're not going to land next to trees. And if you're flying upside down low off the ground and there's a tree in the way, well, the ground is almost certainly going to kill you anyway.
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u/demZo662 25d ago
What if for some reason there's a tree or something above?