Originally Posted by
RetiredBA/BY
Perhaps you misunderstood or I did not make myself clear.
What I meant is that the seat pin should be left in place after landing, IN ITS FLIGHT STOWAGE until the pan is reached, engine shutdown and then carefully replaced with visual observation, by the occupant, of correct insertion, NOT doing it by feel during taxi in when eyes should be outside particularly with other aircraft in close proximity.
That’s the way it was done during my time 12 years on ejection seats and I still feel it is the safer and better procedure.
That was on mk2, 3 & 4 seats so perhaps there are good reasons, no one has yet explained, that the Mk10 has to be different.
Much clearer - that is the procedure on Tornado, unless you’re parking in somewhere like a RES (an aircraft shelter you taxy into forwards). In that case you’d pin up before entering for the obvious reason.