Excuse my ignorance: is ejecting just matter of “pulling a trigger” or do you have to unlock this and that and pull the other thing and a blast curtain, like in the movies? A finger on the trigger could get itchy, as they say.
Check this out:
http://www.ejectionsite.com/f16seat.htm
On the ground there are safty pins installed to prevent accidental ejection but they are removed prior to flight and all one has to do is pull the lever.
Just pull & go. As a WSO, I used to keep a hand at the top of the handle on takeoff and uncomfortable landings - 1/4 second could be the difference between a swing in the chute & not. That way, all I had to do was make a fist and pull the sucker.
Never needed to, but I can remember a few landings bouncing from side to side where I came close...and the time an F-15 took the departure end barrier and didn’t tell anyone! By the time he appeared out of the rain, it was way too late, but somehow the nosegunner managed to slide us past him. Bit of grass in one tire, but we stopped, called the tower for him, and then cussed for several minutes in relief at being alive.