Navy Ejection Seat Trainer - Pilot Flight Officer Aircrew

Navy NFO on a 3G ride!

[statingtheobvious]

If I had that, I'd be in the seat all day ejecting myself.

[charshii]

I always wondered how they trained for that. Cause obviously they’re not just crashing jets every week for practice.

[LukeSumIpsePatremTe]

The point of practice is to ensure the pilot has muscle memory to minimize the damage, and the courage to eject. Not to demonstrate the physical injuries that may follow from saving one's own life.

[toughgiraffe]

The biggest problem is when ejecting at high speed the air you are ejected into is like hitting a brick wall. Literally

[thelionking]

Its a serious issue...ejection of seat is the last thing you want to do. Some pilots lost their legs forever due to severe spine damage. Once you are done with seat ejection, it will take 6 months for the pilot to fly back again. The above things I heard from a air force pilot during an interactive conversation with him. The ejection force is twice than what they have shown in this video.

[cherryblack]

That's just the ejection, on the plane you add speed, air force and fear. My respects to all these heroes! 😬👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[kintugee]

What's more impressive is his ability to say eject 3 times fast

[Shurmash]

I rise off the toilet just like that after Taco Bell.

[thelifeofcollinrs]

Ejections are no joke. On the B1 bomber, Ejection seats are 60 ft pounds of pressure exerted within milliseconds . We had a Lt Colonel that ejected 2times. Both were aircraft related issues. Dude lost 5 inches in height. The last ejection while I was in was over Montana due to a cowling fire
That suppression systems couldn’t put out, 2 crew members had broken legs from hitting the roof because the ejection doors were only so big. Also B1’s have leg straps because of that issue, that go over your ankles so when you pull the ejection handle it pulls your legs in and tucks them under the seat a bit. Also due to the size of the vertical stabilizer the jet ejects you up and slightly to the side. So it’s an odd trajectory for sure. We even had maintenance crew members due from not saving seats while working and being jettisoned while on the ground. Not enough time for the Shute to deploy while strapped to a few hundred pound seat that doesn’t stay upright. Let alone that’s if you make it out of the roof hole since you usually aren’t strapped in while working you would get cut in half sandwiches between the seat and the tiny hole in the roof.

[practicallyseth]

Imagine the hydraulics messed up and he just kept going

[Charlie_x]

Wow I can imagine how excited and just proud this soldier is to being trained to pilot a air force fighter jet. It is extremely hard to get where this gentleman is so I truly applaud him for all the very hard work he has put in to making sure he made the cut. I love my country 🇺🇸

[driedink]

People are talking about how it's way too slow

Of course it is, they're gonna use compressed air because it's more controllable and less violent, real seats use rockets and usually heavily injure the pilot, they don't want that. They just want the pilot to feel comfortable with ejecting. Should they want to get a more accurate trainer they would need to have real rockets, matching the wield of the actual seats, have a super long pole to keep them centered when ejecting and be able to controllably bring them back down, and have a bunch of fucking seats. Those rockets are one time use, compressed air is easy to re use because 1, it's air, 2, you just need to compress it. Oh and let's not forget about the countless medical treatments for squished spines.

[TheWizardGamez]

RIP goose, the best WSO to ever exist. Tragic ejection death

[flukeyzones]

Its something you cant simulate as for the pilot it feels like being hit by a train at supersonic speed very much like "when an unstoppable force hits an Immovable object. The chances for the pilot to survive in one piece is very very less depending upon the ejection scenario.

[evanlucas]

Look, you chairforce people, it's not a simulator. It's a trainer. Yes an actual ejection is considerably more energetic and damaging to the pilot, but you're not going to break a new pilot just to demonstrate it. They do this so when the pilot is in that situation they have the muscle memory to keep their arms and legs out of the way and their neck aligned so they don't snap anything.

[Kaotix_music]

“Any questions?”

Me: “yes, can you say that at a speed I can comprehend that again?”

[billgund]

I remember at William's AFB, AZ, there was an ejection seat simulator nicknamed the "Boombucket."

[ProfessorMoolaGaming]

Disneyland really had some budget cuts

[O-SCP-FGeminiResearchContain]

The navy seat of the chair force, absolutely stunning.

[RafaelTopgunStudios]

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