REFLECTOR: Flying High

[KeithHallsten]

A cannula is pretty confortable.  You don't need a mask until you get up to
the Flight Levels.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Holub" <doug.holub at comcast.net>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Flying High


> 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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