Thanks for the info, Bjorn!
Not that I'm an expert by any stretch, but I've never heard of that. I don't know how easy it would be though.
The pilot, who is the only one that has control of the wing-sweep, as far as I know, might have some trouble reaching the control. There is a fair amount of what they call "eye-balls out" force involved during a flat spin, and the pilot has it worse than the RIO, who is a lot closer to the center of rotation. It would tend to pin the pilot forward in the harness, arms against the cockpit side-walls, preventing him from reaching the controls, or either ejection handle. Unless he was fast and got things done before the spin developed very far. One of the few things about aircraft Top Gun got right.
Doesn't mean no one ever did it, just means the pilot would have to recognize the impending spin and react to it very quickly. As far as I know, though, the NATOPS just says FLAT SPIN--EJECT, in the Emergency Procedures section. No qualifiers, altitude limits, speed on entry, anything. Just jettison the aircraft. And if it has developed much past the beginning stages of a flat spin, the RIO is going to be doing the ejecting.
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