Oldcrow Jr. 62 Posted May 25, 2024 Posted May 25, 2024 I flew the Phantom for the first time last night. I used the Nellis Free Flight mission. I flew about 25 minutes of so to see how it basically handled and external views. During the flight I went from high altitude to about 50 feet above the Lake at 400 plus Knots. Flew low level and around the hills in Terrain masking profile below 200' AGL with some hard maneuvering. Then climbed back up and flew back to Nellis to land. No issues with Jester or "the WSO". But then a problem occurred. I was at 3500' about 315 knots, and was about to enter at a 45 to the downwind leg in the Pattern. The next thing I know, the WSO ejects from the rear seat for no apparent reason. As described above, I did hard low level flying, and he stayed with me. Now as I am about to land, he decides to eject. Could someone possibly either explain to me if this is a bug and if it's happened to you also. And could someone detail the critieria for the WSO to eject, and what the difference is between his question of are we going to fly low or high. Other than that, no other issues noted but haven't flown it much.
sBinn64 Posted May 25, 2024 Posted May 25, 2024 34 minutes ago, Oldcrow Jr. 62 said: I flew the Phantom for the first time last night. I used the Nellis Free Flight mission. I flew about 25 minutes of so to see how it basically handled and external views. During the flight I went from high altitude to about 50 feet above the Lake at 400 plus Knots. Flew low level and around the hills in Terrain masking profile below 200' AGL with some hard maneuvering. Then climbed back up and flew back to Nellis to land. No issues with Jester or "the WSO". But then a problem occurred. I was at 3500' about 315 knots, and was about to enter at a 45 to the downwind leg in the Pattern. The next thing I know, the WSO ejects from the rear seat for no apparent reason. As described above, I did hard low level flying, and he stayed with me. Now as I am about to land, he decides to eject. Could someone possibly either explain to me if this is a bug and if it's happened to you also. And could someone detail the critieria for the WSO to eject, and what the difference is between his question of are we going to fly low or high. Other than that, no other issues noted but haven't flown it much. thats jester being jester 1
Oldcrow Jr. 62 Posted May 25, 2024 Author Posted May 25, 2024 Well the SP finally found him. They located him at the local BBQ joint, and they reported that he was hungry, noticed very few cars in the Parking lot, and didn't want to stand in line or wait to eat. BTW did find out, in the Logbook, when Jester punches out, you as the pilot get a Ejection number increase in your records. Wonder if that means if you both punch out, does it mean you get two ejections added to your records??? So Jester being Jester is fine, for now, just hope he doesn't do it in the middle of an Attack Mission or Furball.
Dominik96 Posted May 28, 2024 Posted May 28, 2024 Hi @Oldcrow Jr. 62, I have a few questions that would help me to track the issue. Were you already in the landing config- gear down, flaps down? And also, what runway were you planning to land on? Right or left pattern? Have you saved the log? Thanks for the report!
Oldcrow Jr. 62 Posted June 6, 2024 Author Posted June 6, 2024 Sorry for the late reply. Was landing gear down, flaps down, and level flight. was working towards the eastern heading runway. Coming around to a left downwind for a right turn to base, about 2 miles out from the downwind leg. Sorry didn't save the log, but again didn't think I was maneuvering that hard, and wasn't in an excessive decent rate. Was between -250 to + 300 fpm Vertical rate.
Grundar Posted June 6, 2024 Posted June 6, 2024 On 5/25/2024 at 9:58 PM, Oldcrow Jr. 62 said: Well the SP finally found him. They located him at the local BBQ joint, and they reported that he was hungry, noticed very few cars in the Parking lot, and didn't want to stand in line or wait to eat. BTW did find out, in the Logbook, when Jester punches out, you as the pilot get a Ejection number increase in your records. Wonder if that means if you both punch out, does it mean you get two ejections added to your records??? So Jester being Jester is fine, for now, just hope he doesn't do it in the middle of an Attack Mission or Furball. Yes I have ejected once from the Phantom after combat and it made my Logbook ejection count 2 (Both I and Jester were ejected). I don't recall the Tomcat doing that, but maybe it did lol.
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