“”Where exactly is this in the training syllabus or the dash 1?”
The manual doesn’t tell you everything. Do you think the military would need to tell a pilot the obvious. It is a pilot’s decision to determine the flying capacity of an aircraft, If their aircraft was still flyable, then they have two choices to make, one to try for a forced landing even on a runway or two, to stick it somewhere to do the least harm. But that has to do with the capacity of the pilot, the aircraft at the time, and where they were.
Do you honestly think an experienced pilot, an instructor, would not try to aim it away from population whether ejecting or trying a forced landing if he could? There have been crashes killing people on forced landings because pilots didn’t have a place to aim it so they tried to ride it in where the damage and death rate could be less. That and the fact that ejecting is not a all more safe than a forced landing in many cases.
But here is information you might use:
“If a decision to eject is made, the pilot should first attempt to turn the aircraft toward an area where injury or damage to persons or property on the ground or ware is least likely to occur.”
https://classicjetsims.com/CF-104/EmergencyProcedures.html
“It depends on the condition of the aircraft. If the pilot is in control of the plane but determines that a crash is inevitable, he should head to the closest unpopulated area, reduce speed, and then eject. If, however, the pilot has lost control of the plane’s basic functioning and can no longer alter its path (in military parlance, the aircraft is “not flying, but falling”), then he should prioritize escaping before impact.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2008/12/how-and-when-to-use-your-ejection-seat.html
And the immediate reporting may not appear to be sound either. After examining witness testimony, news determined that the one pilot was not on fire when he came down, he was electrically burned on the wires.
https://abc7chicago.com/fort-worth-plane-crash-military-lake-texas/11031300/
And like I said in my entry, just like yours, the NTSB and the military, probably working toward the FAA also, will have a mess to figure out.
And an afterthought:
One more realism that comes from a movie when a military lawyer asked a service member on the stand how he knew of the way to the chow hall if it wasn’t in the manual? He retorted, “I just followed the other guys.”
wy69
It is obvious that you have never been in SAC.
If a decision to eject is made, the pilot should first attempt to turn the aircraft toward an area where injury or damage to persons or property on the ground or ware is least likely to occur.”
Seriously, you are quoting this from a flight simultor??
Do you honestly think an experienced pilot, an instructor, would not try to aim it away from population whether ejecting or trying a forced landing if he could?
Your circular logic defeats your own argumebt criticizing the IP.