Eject animation

[markturner1960]

I had cause to eject yesterday, for the first time and after I left the jet, the chair remained hanging in the air staionary while the jet tumbled to earth, for maybe 15 seconds before the parachute deployed and separated the chair? 

I presume its not supposed to be like that? 

[krayons213]

Real life ejection seats have a pressure sensor to detect what altitude you eject at and only deploy at a safe speed/ safe altitude. Generally speaking if you eject at 30,000 feet and your chute deploys your onboard oxygen bottle likely isn't going to last down to 10,000 feet, so your seat won't separate and let your chute go wide until 12-14000 feet.

[G.J.S]

As with what krayons213 said, plus ejection velocity. If you are too fast for main chute deployment, then you will only have the stabilising drogue until speed is safe enough to deploy the main.