F-14 ejection system can be set to Command (both go) or Individual (each has to pull their handle).
Typically the seats are set to Command. The idea is that the pilot keeps trying to fly the plane; the RIO has the SA to punch them out or not.
If they are flying a “guest” in the back seat, they often put the seats in individual. It has happened where the guest in the back has accidentally punched out and the pilot RTB’d…in a convertible.
Well isn’t that interesting! Would be quite the embarrassment to be the one to have accidentally punched out.
I am guessing there is more to returning a jet with one seat out to service than simply re-installing it - what sort of down time would that entail, given the rest of the jet operates still?
OK, the obvious question…the A-6 and EA-6 are something like 80% the same airframe, +90% the same wing, etc. So, A-6 and EA-6 coming out at the same time?
True enough…however, as @Phantom88 says, they could shoot HARM. Also, the EA-6B is a heck of a good ELINT collector. So something like the HB Viggen ELINT capability but in real time…cross-fixes to identify/locate SAM sites, enemy ships, even where the A-50 is…stuff like that.
From that point, simple noise jamming to hide a strike package would be enough for “fun” without getting into the sticky parts of implementing ECM. Just a thought.
Looking forward to a flyable KA-6!
Because what says “I am a real simmer” more clearly than flying circles for three hours and having all the Mudspikers in the fly-in take fuel from you!?
Well, initially I would really agree. The more roles the better.
But in the long run… I’ll go for air to ground. Either killing stuff myself or flying as a FAC in the A-10C
…which reminds me that some day I really have to finish that one mission I planned and started to build, and fly it with y’all…
Definitely up for flying with you sometime dude! Was waiting for your flightstick repair pieces to come through and didn’t want to keep bothering you over it till it was mended.