Originally Posted by
ASRAAMTOO
BUT as your MB seat moved up the rails a drogue gun would have fired to deploy a stabilising parachute. This would be ready to pull the main chute out the instant the altitude was in limits and tumbling stopped.
From the accident video I can’t help thinking that had these been MB seats, even an earlier Mk4, we would have seen drogue deployment and seat separation on the video.
MB Drogue Gun had a 0.5 Sec delay once intiated and BTDU 2.25 Sec (IIRC) - both operating simultaneously.