In the good old days Brad Edwards took a bus load group of us down to RAAF Richmond for an aviation Medicine day and afternoon was a run in decompression chamber and from memory we were taken to 23000ft and no way could any of us complete the counting back by three ie given 100, 97, 94, __,__ There is a well know audio of think F5 pilot having trouble closing h *is* canopy then finally takes off and no mater how hard controllers tried they could not get him to move the Oxy regulators levers forward (giving him 100% oxy) and he just went into subconsciousness to eventually crash.
Gather the only serviceable decompression chambers are in NZ now. DAMEs in AUS just experience mixed gasses these days. I think it is a shame at least commercial pilots are not required to do a mixed gas run and that would be more useful than the english test all new pilots must now do to get a PPL and pay a contractor $100 for the 10min test. Ian M On 8 July 2012 09:35, Anthony Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > ---- > Towards the end, the 'pilot' is unable to put his mask back on, not from > lack of motor control or lack of conciousness, but just from not caring. > ---- > > No from not caring. I still cared and wanted to put the mask back on. My > experience was the complete inability to get my brain from A to B. > > I heard the voice say "Number 3, put your mask back on". > > It took some time to remember that I was 'Number 3' - even though I thought > I was fine and was reacting OK. > > Then there was the fumbling with the mask and the few moments (actually > quite a few moments) staring at it whilst I tried to work out which way was > up on the mask and how to get it onto my face - even though I thought I was > fine and was reacting OK. > > Once the mask was on, the tunnel vision disappeared (hadn't realized that I > had tunnel vision) and all the colours came flooding back (hadn't realized > that the world had gone black and white either). > > I would not have believed anyone afterwards when they told that it took so > long for me to think and react, except I saw the second group in the > chamber > behave in exactly the same way. > > A remarkable experience and the results are somewhat similar to a long > drinking session. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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