Group Poll :Oxygen

wrote:
In rec.aviation.owning xyzzy wrote:
: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...08X07722&key=1

... and then there's they guy from the thread a month or two ago that said
that since he was barely affected (aside from a bit of shortness of
breath) when doing
manual labor in an unpressurized plane climbing to 25,000 ft that all
the hype about
being "noticably affected" below 15,000 was bull****.

Again I call bull****.

Unless you are moderately active in excercise and live in the rockies at 5000
feet or higher, or are a particularly unusual person, you WILL be
impaired at 10k for
any time longer than a few minutes. Hypoxia is insideous.

I live in the Rockies higher than 5K (well, actually, Denver is in the
plains, but we're still that high). And I still get tired in the
mountains on my way skiing, and exhausted when I get home. I've been
trying to figure out a way to carry my O2 bottle while skiing, but
I'm sure the ski area lawyers wouldn't allow it.