18, the survival radio and beacon are located inside a  seat pan underneath the pilot. After clearing the cockpit canopy,  the ejection seat separates, but the seat pan falls 26 where a life  raft is actuated and survival items are revealed, all of it attached  to the pilot via lanyard. The beacon, having gone off at ejection,  would still be attached to the pilot. He would have not needed to  get to the beacon at the end because it would still be in his hands.