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The issue was the Mk16 seat over rotation (of the seat) on ejection for lightweight pilots. They are rated for mass between 63.5 to 106Kg. Of course even the F18 had seat mass limits. We used to raise this all the time at ARDU with a flight test engineer who was ....shall we say....over mass! He used to bump us off backseat rides in an excuse for hime in some flight regime test waffle. So we approached the CO.....hahah he had to loose weight! hahaha and had to weigh in. He was so embarrassed.
Its just this (mK16) seat was rotating on ejection tests with lightweight "jockey" pilots. I guess easy enough to fix with making them carry extra mass...just like the stewards do in horsey racing.
Last edited by wasyoungonce; 19-12-2018 at 02:31 PM.
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