bag was deployed 1.5-2.0 seconds before being tossed off the sled so plenty of time, i've had this happen to me before on a test deployment with the same type of bag this was actually that bags brand new replacement.
bag was test deployed... first day after a decent reload, not many sleds on the hill and not many ventured back where we were so there was fresh snow/slopes everywhere you looked, we rode in fresh all day long... you're right though, could've just stayed in the trailer and avoided it all together
the very bottom corner of my bag was sticking out so no need for the beacon... thankfully, that would've been an extra minute or two and I definitely would've been unconscious
It deployed INSIDE the avy bag, it actually ripped the inside of the bag and tried to expand inside the shell (check out the picture in the video at 4:45, that's exactly what it looked like when I took the front off)
It helped a little bit with the floating but barely... And then since it blew up inside my bag I wasn't only fighting against the snow to breath I was fighting against the other f$&kin bag trying to blow up on my back as well
long enough, a couple seconds... As soon as my hand left the handle bar i pulled it.... Exact same thing happened to me with an ABS bag last year on the last ride, someone pulled it as a prank. This was the 'redesigned' bag they sent me to replace that one.