F-15 Ride Along Backseater Punches Out

///AMG said:
Yeah same for the NACES seats we have (a derivative of ACES II if I'm not mistaken?). Three positions in the rear cockpit, SOLO (for if the rear is unoccupied), NORM (aft seat goes out when that crew station initiates, front seat does not), and AFT Initiate (where rear seat can eject both front and back). Our rule is you have to be a qualified F/A-18 or EA-18 pilot or NFO to put the seat in aft initiate. Incentive rides, like this one, are flown in Norm. I'm sure they did the same thing here, with whatever equivalent setting the ACES has..........I did fly with ACES in the F-16, but too many penguins have slipped off the iceberg for me to remember if the mode terminology was the same, but I believe it functioned exactly the same IIRC (in the B models)
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ACES and NACES are unrelated. Different manufacturers, no common ancestors.
 
///AMG said:
Yeah same for the NACES seats we have (a derivative of ACES II if I'm not mistaken?). Three positions in the rear cockpit, SOLO (for if the rear is unoccupied), NORM (aft seat goes out when that crew station initiates, front seat does not), and AFT Initiate (where rear seat can eject both front and back). Our rule is you have to be a qualified F/A-18 or EA-18 pilot or NFO to put the seat in aft initiate. Incentive rides, like this one, are flown in Norm. I'm sure they did the same thing here, with whatever equivalent setting the ACES has..........I did fly with ACES in the F-16, but too many penguins have slipped off the iceberg for me to remember if the mode terminology was the same, but I believe it functioned exactly the same IIRC (in the B models)
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These are the same three modes in the F-15.
 
Hacker15e said:
I've punched off tanks with the Combat Jett button and it wasn't nearly as satisfying as one would think. With the fear and all.
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It’s the Canopy Jett that everybody really wants to hit in the Apache.

Wing stores have only ever been punched 1-2 times in combat. Out of combat…. Different story. Guess that’s why the pins are supposed to be there.
 
MikeD said:
I don’t believe the front seat can eject the rear seat. But the rear can the front, if set that way.
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In the S-3, pilot and cotac both had eject switches. If both were set to individual, everybody is on their own, front and back. This would never happen with anybody in the back and I think the min crew was three until relegated to range work.

For crew eject, if pilot selected ind and cotac selected crew, only the cotac could initiate a command ejection. If reversed, only the pilot could initiate command ejection. If pilot and cotac selected crew, either could initiate a command ejection. Back seat guy/s wanted to see the crew light illuminated.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
In the S-3, pilot and cotac both had eject switches. If both were set to individual, everybody is on their own, front and back. This would never happen with anybody in the back and I think the min crew was three until relegated to range work.

For crew eject, if pilot selected ind and cotac selected crew, only the cotac could initiate a command ejection. If reversed, only the pilot could initiate command ejection. If pilot and cotac selected crew, either could initiate a command ejection. Back seat guy/s wanted to see the crew light illuminated.
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How did it go off again with the Prowler that landed on the Hoov that was still in the wires? I wanna say some/most of the S-3 guys lived, and nobody in the prowler did. But might have that backwards. I think I was in high school when it happened anyway. I think there was an instructor of mine in flight school that was in one of them
 
///AMG said:
How did it go off again with the Prowler that landed on the Hoov that was still in the wires? I wanna say some/most of the S-3 guys lived, and nobody in the prowler did. But might have that backwards. I think I was in high school when it happened anyway. I think there was an instructor of mine in flight school that was in one of them
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1998 or 1999, night carqual, fouled deck. Prowler was waved off late and hit the S-3’s folded wings.

Prowler lost all four, S-3 guys made it out. I knew the S-3 pilot, VS-22 skipper. The COTAC ended up hanging from antennas on the island. Can’t recall mention of a backseater, maybe it was just guys up front.

I was at NSCS planning on finishing my career as a supply officer when it happened, my medical retirement was authorized before I counted too many beans. Oak leaves with wings, odd combo.
 
Murdoughnut said:
Sounds like it was an incentive ride.

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F-15's Ride-Along Passenger Hits Eject On The Ground, Oops - Jalopnik

So it would be super embarrassing if instead you ejected... while still on the ground. That would be very bad and dumb. Whoopsie.
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Pilot Fighter said:
This would never happen with anybody in the back and I think the min crew was three until relegated to range work.
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Bad edit. I meant to say until they were relegated to (mostly) tanker work.

I’m curious what the ejection configuration was for the range birds. I would think they would enforce ind select in the pilot and cotac positions and not worry about ballast in the rear seats.That gives the front seat a .52 second advantage.
 
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