Also, it would mean flying with a pipe bomb in the cockpit.

Pipe bomb with a steel spike in the end. FARs or no FARs, that is the
operative statement. It also has to be built to survive the crash and
turnover, safetied to not go off until triggered despite the G-loads
of a hard landing and turnover (not to mention normal flight)...

Build in a kick-out panel between the seat and rudder pedals, maybe?