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Old December 10th 03, 08:26 PM
Viperdoc
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No, not necessarily. The decision to eject may have to be made pretty
quickly and decisevely. If you spend too much time trying a restart or
troubleshooting you could be out of the envelope for a safe ejection. Even
though the Aces II has a great track record, it can be a easy to delay
ejection over water, at night, etc.

As an example, we had a flap light come on while enroute to a range carrying
live bombs. The pilot dropped the bombs over the range, and then we briefed
the emergency procedures in case the plane departed controlled flight. The
area surrounding the home base was very desolate, and certainly not very
inviting. Landing in a river or lake would probably not have been
survivable, and the prospect of a parachute landing in a heavily forested
area was not too appealing either. Luckily, everything worked out fine on
landing, although the emergency vehicles following us down the runway was
pretty impressive.