Does a Baron 58 have an ejection seat?

Mxsmanic wrote:
Does anyone actually have an answer to the question?

Yes, but we are not going to tell you. You just have to go find a real
Baron and look for yourself.

Your question was asked and answered. It got all of the attention it
deserved.

Viperdoc wrote:

My Baron is equipped with the optional Aces II ejection seats in the front
only. Rather than a ballistic parachute, Beechcraft offered the option of
ejection seats. They are zero-zero (will deploy a chute at zero altitude and
zero forward velocity).

The seat pan has a deployable survival kit as well as a self inflating raft.


My Bonanza also has the optional ejection seat. Since mine is the lower
powered rocket Beech had to install the V tail. Pilot and passenger
pass thru the Vee in an emergency.

Mxsmanic wrote:
I note in the simulation of the Baron in MSFS (Dreamfleet's
simulation), there's a button on the left side of the pilot, part of
several rows of buttons, marked "Ejection seat."

Since no one else seems to have a serious answer...

Is it a button on the dash, or just a circuit breaker on the left wall?


In either case, it's possible that the military trainer version (still
sold by Raytheon, according to their website) has such a label for
training purposes only... although none seemed to have had an actual
ejection seat.

Kev

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Mxsmanic wrote:
I note in the simulation of the Baron in MSFS (Dreamfleet's
simulation), there's a button on the left side of the pilot, part of
several rows of buttons, marked "Ejection seat."

Since no one else seems to have a serious answer...

Is it a button on the dash, or just a circuit breaker on the left wall?


In either case, it's possible that the military trainer version (still
sold by Raytheon, according to their website) has such a label for
training purposes only... although none seemed to have had an actual
ejection seat.

Kev


Or it might just be a game...

Perhaps a call to Bill Gates or Paul Allen would be the best way to resolve
this issue?

Judah writes:

Or it might just be a game...

Not this aircraft.

Perhaps a call to Bill Gates or Paul Allen would be the best way to resolve
this issue?

Why? They didn't write the code.

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Kev writes:

Since no one else seems to have a serious answer...

Is it a button on the dash, or just a circuit breaker on the left wall?

There are rows of what look like buttons (but perhaps they are fuses
or circuitbreakers) along the left interior lower wall of the cockpit,
below the panel and roughly to the left of where I assume the pilot's
leg would be. One of them is marked EJECTION SEAT.

In either case, it's possible that the military trainer version (still
sold by Raytheon, according to their website) has such a label for
training purposes only... although none seemed to have had an actual
ejection seat.

I was just curious whether it corresponds to the real thing or is just
a discreet joke by the developers.

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