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Even ejecting with good reason is enough to end a fighter pilot’s career. The rates for significant back injury are between 1 in 3 and 1 in 2 depending on the d
by throwup238 1y ago
Even ejecting with good reason is enough to end a fighter pilot’s career. The rates for significant back injury are between 1 in 3 and 1 in 2 depending on the design.
- mikkupikku 1y agoMy understanding is they're automatically retired from flight after the second (or maybe third?) ejection, not automatically after the first.
- appreciatorBus 1y agoIt feels like a good chunk of the comments here imply that ejection is a pretty common activity, hence the interest in what happens next, both to the pilot and the jet. I don’t have any ready statistics, but if ejection was a commonplace activity then the world‘s air forces would be depleted of planes in very short order. It wouldn’t shock me if there’s a policy about pilots who ejected more than x times, but I would be shocked if the policy was ever actually enforced, simply due to the rarity of it even being an issue.
- throwup238 1y agoThe Martin Baker homepage shows 7802 lives saved using just their brand of ejection seat so it's not exceedingly rare. I'd estimate less than 5% of fighter jet pilots eject during their career.