Oxygen question

[Dan Youngquist]

Hi all,

A couple questions for those who use oxygen and an oximeter. What oxygen
level do you maintain in flight? How much oxygen (liters per minute, or
equivalent rate if you use a conserving regulator) do you typically use,
at what altitude?

-Dan

[Viperdoc[_1_]]

I generally use enough oxygen flow to keep my O2 sat at or greater than 92%.
Without supplemental oxygen at 12000 my sat dropped to the low eighties
after around 30 minutes, which is pretty low.

[Dave S]

Dan Youngquist wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A couple questions for those who use oxygen and an oximeter. What
> oxygen level do you maintain in flight? How much oxygen (liters per
> minute, or equivalent rate if you use a conserving regulator) do you
> typically use, at what altitude?
>
> -Dan

92% is a good minimum level. If you want to get fancy, check your sat on
the ground on ambient, then maintain that in flight... but 92-93% is a
good baseline minimum value. The oxygen content in the blood versus the
% saturation is NOT a linear relationship (more of an S curve) and
starts to drop off SHARPLY below around 92%.


Dave

[Robert M. Gary]

Dan Youngquist wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A couple questions for those who use oxygen and an oximeter. What oxygen
> level do you maintain in flight? How much oxygen (liters per minute, or
> equivalent rate if you use a conserving regulator) do you typically use,
> at what altitude?

I'm not sure how we would know. I usually set it to my approx altitude.
If I'm at 12,000 feet I'll usually set it to 10,000 during the day. I'm
also mid-thirties, non-smoker, and exercise.

-robert

[Peter R.]

"Robert M. Gary" > wrote:

> I'm
> also mid-thirties, non-smoker, and exercise.

LOL, goes to show you how deceiving online impressions are. In the two or
so years I have been reading your posts, I had you pegged for a 50 year
old. :)

--
Peter

[Grumman-581[_3_]]

"Peter R." > wrote in message
...
> LOL, goes to show you how deceiving online impressions are. In the two or
> so years I have been reading your posts, I had you pegged for a 50 year
> old. :)

Well, some people who want to be able to say that they're 30-something start
counting in hexadecimal...

[Jose[_1_]]

> Well, some people who want to be able to say that they're 30-something start
> counting in hexadecimal...

Hey!

Jose
--
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[Robert M. Gary]

Peter R. wrote:
> "Robert M. Gary" > wrote:
>
> > I'm
> > also mid-thirties, non-smoker, and exercise.
>
> LOL, goes to show you how deceiving online impressions are. In the two or
> so years I have been reading your posts, I had you pegged for a 50 year
> old. :)

Well my wife says I sound like Andy Rooney sometimes so maybe that's
why.
I've been lucky to have flown a lot of cool birds, sometimes people
assume I"m older because of that. I got my private in a Cessna 140,
then got an Aeronca chief, then a Swift and now have a Mooney. I also
did my IFR pretty quick after my private so that compresses things.

-Robert, CFII

[Steve Foley]

"Grumman-581" > wrote in message
...
> "Peter R." > wrote in message
> ...
>> LOL, goes to show you how deceiving online impressions are. In the two
>> or
>> so years I have been reading your posts, I had you pegged for a 50 year
>> old. :)
>
> Well, some people who want to be able to say that they're 30-something
> start
> counting in hexadecimal...
>
>

Geat idea. Now I'm back in my twenties.