Anyone who wonders what it’s like to eject probably won’t come much closer than a video making the social media rounds. The brief helmet cam clip glimpses the split second destiny changes that are part of the drill for jet jockeys and this one seems to take the time to reflect on that. The video apparently shows an SU-25 on a low level training run hitting a power line. The mishap reportedly occurred near Belogrod on the Ukraine border on June 22, 2022.
What a sad day! Now one of the most (Mostly unjustifiably) expensive FBO’s will have far more influence, and far costlier fuel, landing, and (primarily unneeded) service.
GA just became far more expensive. A day of sadness to most of us.
Signature is overpriced, and the worst FBO in the world. Services are lousy, and never live up to even the minimal expectations of decent FBO. Sorry to see TAC Air go, standby for $11.00 jet fuel.
Wherever one looks, there’s never a positive comment about Signature. I’ve been with TAC Air (previously Millionaire) since 2008 and always had great service, reasonable prices and warm interactions. I’m not looking forward to this change. In my experience, Signature hates piston aircraft.
Whenever I go into an FBO and I see the vaulted ceilings, plush surroundings, capuchino machines, and it lit up like the white house Christmas tree, I know that I am in the wrong place. Because someone has to pay for all of that. Usually me. Then I feel like the illegitimate love child at the family reunion. Putting fuel in a old 182…
However it would be quite unusual for a SAM strike to cut the fin off with such a clean, straight line without apparently damaging anything else around it…
the response speed from hit to ejection seem amazing to me. I am no fighter pilot, but i suspect even a well trained pilot would take at least two seconds to assess. On the other hand vegetation seem to take the longest time.
I assume the pilot had a radio on him, but nothing shows an activation. Yet he talks on it within less than a minute. Do those activate automatically?
How long does it take a parachute to deploy? The pilot ejected and landed within seconds.
Both of those questions make me think that the video is edited. Thus I think authenticity question also come to mind.
has a great perspective of the pilot ejecting, at about the 17 second mark. Don’t be distracted by the canopy flying off to the left - watch the pilot tumblin off to the right.
He not only survived; he was sore but flying the next day.
It is an incredibly fast response, though I would imagine that when flying at a low level like that, one would be primed to eject at the first sign of any anomaly.
Not sure what you mean by “activation.” Turning a radio on is very simple and the video doesn’t show the pilot’s hands anyway.
I make it to be about 10 seconds from ejection to landing. That’s the same as the second test in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1cnvJO1TF8 (the first one was shorter but didn’t appear to be survivable…)
