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For some reason the USAF thought we firefighters needed to know about ejecting, so part of our curriculum at Chanute was an early-70s film called "Ejection Decision" or something of the sort. It had piss-all to do with firefighting, but I thought it was interesting because the pilots were talking about ass-ending the envelope and "I've tried A, I've tried B ..." until they get the FOOD.

One snippet in that film is the famous (or infamous) Sabre-dance crash. Narrator speaking stolidly even as the plane is hogjumping all over Hell's Half-acre.
 
Everyone that worked on an aircraft with ejection seats had to go through seat training. FD would need to know how to basic safe a seat in an emergency. It would really suck to loose your head as the person you're trying to rescue went flying out on you.
 
Donivanp said:
Everyone that worked on an aircraft with ejection seats had to go through seat training. FD would need to know how to basic safe a seat in an emergency. It would really suck to loose your head as the person you're trying to rescue went flying out on you.
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We did. We did fam on every type that flew through, and being Fort Worth, we had as many transients as natives on weekends -- especially during football season. Shutdown procedures, safety-pin points, and yes, none of us wanted a rocket-ride so we paid attention. I just didn't get why the pilot's decision had anything to do with me other than "where do I go to find him?" That movie did not inform me as a firefighter, interesting though it was.

I would have more appreciated a good training film on the ACES-II. It wasn't hard to master, but the planes were cooler.
 
Donivanp said:
Still remember to this day on B-52D the entry hatch was the Nav's escape hatch, when you climbed on toy counted pin as you looked up into a downward firing seat. You paid close attention.
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There was an incident when I was in uniform up in Alaska, I think in an F-15, when the plane had been towed into a hangar for upgrades. One of the ground-crew going into the cockpit didn't pay attention to the seat, assuming it was safe, and got thrown through the roof and out the side.

Bulletins like that got our attention. We broke out the 105-E-9 on every transient we came across. T-38s, C-5s, C-141s, -130s, F-15s, Hornets, Tomcats, and Buckeyes from the Gulf Coast, Apaches, Blackhawks, and Cobras from Ft Hood. We hosted Pres Bush the Elder in 1992 during his campaign, didn't get to go check that one out, lol. But shutting down and securing an aircraft was bread and butter to us, you do it before anything else but pumping foam.
 
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