My guess here is that hover-mode for the marines has this added safety feature because the hover mode has a habit of flipping and the marines pilots are not very well trained for dealing with it, so they wanted it to auto-yeet the pilots because they don’t think they’d be fast enough to eject when panic sets in without the added help.
Plane thinks it’s in hover mode and the plane is rolling, so it yeets the pilot out. The only error that has to happen here is for the “hover mode” sensor to be wrong.
Seems probable. I did also find this separate, but hilarious issue for the Air Force version of the F35 when rooting around
In July 2022, the Air Force temporarily grounded its F-35s over ejection seat concerns. While the Air Force F-35A does not have an auto-eject function, some of the cartridges that initiate the ejection in the warplane were found to have issues, leading to the grounding.
The cartridge problem came to light during an F-35 inspection…An ejection cartridge felt suspiciously light and, after a closer look, turned out to be missing its explosive charge that would lift someone to safety.
How many different ways can they screw up one area lmao
My guess here is that hover-mode for the marines has this added safety feature because the hover mode has a habit of flipping and the marines pilots are not very well trained for dealing with it, so they wanted it to auto-yeet the pilots because they don’t think they’d be fast enough to eject when panic sets in without the added help.
Plane thinks it’s in hover mode and the plane is rolling, so it yeets the pilot out. The only error that has to happen here is for the “hover mode” sensor to be wrong.
Seems probable. I did also find this separate, but hilarious issue for the Air Force version of the F35 when rooting around
How many different ways can they screw up one area lmao
I wonder how many pilots were doing incredibly dangerous things while having literally no ejection seat lol