REFLECTOR: Flying High

[Douglas Holub]

I've never used oxygen in an airplane, and it looks really uncomfortable. Is
it?

Doug Holub
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Riley" <richard at riley.net>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Flying High


> At 07:55 AM 5/14/05, you wrote:
> >     Each person's reaction to oxygen depravation "can" be different.
> > There is a list of symptoms such as headache, nausea, giggles, and all
> > the other things that Jorge mentioned.
>
> Absolutely.
>
> I went through the chamber at Edwards before they closed it.  I was in
> amazingly good shape at altitude - kept up conversation, did math
problems,
> said tongue twisters.  But my peripheral vision was gone.  I had about a
40
> degree field of view, everything else was red/black.  Of course, other
> things deteriorated with time, but that was my first significant
> symptom.  I'm kind of lucky, it's an easy one to recognize.
>
> I turn on my O2 system (electronic metered), and set it to night, at 5000
> feet.  I'm refilling from a welding tank so it costs pennies, and after a
> flight I just feel better.  It also means I don't think twice about going
> to 15 or 17k, to get above turbulence.
>
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