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.
“It is obvious that you have never been in SAC.”
I was stationed from 1977 till 1984 at MacDill AFB, Ca. One of my most interesting sorties was leading the IRT on the decon of the SR71 that flew into the trail of the Russian satellite that fell out of the sky in 1979. The other decon location was on a little island in the Pacific that also got involved. At that time, it was a sensitive area. I was also part of the traveling decon team that was involved with crash control and clean up, mapping and IRTs for discovery and collection for the west coast and Hawaii.
I was involved with TAC fighter training at MacDill and operations in Alaska for CAC ports. I would say that qualifies me as having a little experience with fighter aircraft and their pilots.
“Seriously, you are quoting this from a flight simultor??”
After the classroom, this is where the pilot is taught to react and decide in a practical application prior to stepping into a trainer and in between live sorties. Got a better tool?
“Your circular logic defeats your own argumebt criticizing the IP.”
Thank you. Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, “circle in proving”; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. The components of a circular argument are often logically valid because if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true.
And how can the investigation start from an unknown beginning without back tracing the event. They will start with a few things: visual of the downed aircraft, review radio transmissions, and sport out the transponder. Isn’t that starting from the back forward since the initial problem happens before the problem is recognized? And this is normal way it is accomplished. Seen too many of them. Glad I retired.
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