The pilot is below the parachute, if you zoom in you can see the pilot chute at the top. And the tractor driver could have been watching before the pilot ejected.
But the plane does appear to be a lot closer to the camera, and better defined, than the pilot. And if it was on that trajectory you wouldn’t wait until it was that close to the ground to eject!
Still, probably a bit more convincing than the flying machine I posted…
Just read that back, pilot, parachute, and pilot chute in the same sentence is not at all confusing.