We did the pool thing bright and early today, putting on our G-suits and going through the techniques for PLFs in the water. Trained with all the stuff strapped on you: the inflated LPU, harness, seat cover simulating the part of the ejection seat, and the rest of your flight gear. Did some more helo hoist practice and then finally we were dragged across the length of the pool only to unhook ourselves with our good arm. No more pool! (I hate manual inflation, by the way)
The day was done for the pilots, but we T-6ers were sticking around for the ejection seat trainer. Wasn't all that hard, I should remember not to eat so much right before another lecture. (The food didn't come up during the eject, it just helped me doze off in the front row.) It was really simple, 2 commands and we were out of the plane. The trainer used compressed air, which is the dumbed down version of the real thing of course. In real life, we would be feeling lots of hot gases under our butts and maybe a period of unconsciousness...
Here's a picture from the trainer:
Hi Ma!
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