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Group Poll :Oxygen
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http://www.jimphoenix.com/jimphoenix...busFlying.html - Mountain High EDS, connected to ships power with 9V battery backup and spare battery in the bag just in case. - Oxygen cannula on prior to takeoff on every flight, never know when the thermals go above 10k, or wave happens. - Nonin pulse oximeter, no better way to tell if you're saturated... or not. - Refill my own ship bottle (aluminum AL647 from MH) with welder's oxygen. O2 is O2, unless somebody adds something to it, like H2O, but then it's not O2 is it? Bottle and gas from Praxair. I also use it for welding. - The 647 lasts about 10 hours at 10k, then it's only down to about 500 lbs. I cascade to about 1500, then top off with my 2200 psi bottle, the high pressure bottle lasts an entire summer, goes down to maybe 1800, then it becomes the cascade bottle. - Cheap - make your own refill lines with fittings from www.mcmaster.com. - It's your life, figure out the oxygen thing if you're going to do it. The Avweb article is good, google it. Jim www.jimphoenix.com |
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Group Poll :Oxygen
"Jose" wrote in message ... no one has mentioned using an O2 system from a home healthcare type source. It's the same 02, the same bottles. IN ground school I was taught that medical O2 has water in it which can freeze in the lines at high altitudes and low pressures. I've never used O2 so have no firsthand experience. obvious change in the address. Wow. I normally don't keep my cabin that cold. My wife would complain long before water would freeze. |
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Group Poll :Oxygen
IN ground school I was taught that medical O2 has water in it which can
freeze in the lines at high altitudes and low pressures. I've never used O2 so have no firsthand experience. Wow. I normally don't keep my cabin that cold. My wife would complain long before water would freeze. Do you normally keep your wife inside the oxygen lines? I would complain too. Jose -- Money: what you need when you run out of brains. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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Group Poll :Oxygen
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 04:05:45 GMT, George Patterson
wrote: Pilots in WWI routinely flew patrols at altitudes up to 20,000' without oxygen. Basically, being physically able to perform at 6,000 meters was part of the criteria for being an airman. If you couldn't hack it, you washed out (or died). That may be true George (and I believe it is), but there's no telling how many pilots were lost from being stupidly hypoxic. There was an instance in which two Allied pilots stalked a German Taube that was flying at or about 20,000 feet. The Taube was obviously reconoitering and taking photos, and it circled continuously over it's point of interest. The two approaching pursuits were in plain sight, according to the author (who was one of the two pilots), and even saw the German pilots head turn and look at them. But he made no move to escape and just flew on straight and level. They shot him down. Corky Scott |
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