Many thanks HarvestReaper for the insight. I was under the impression from Pilot's Notes, that provided that the canopy/column snatch master was armed, you could pull the seat handles to jettison the canopy and eject the seat in sequence without having to manually jettison the canopy first. You say this was never SOP during your time -was this because it was safer to blow the canopy off first to ensure proper clearance, then eject?