At 04:28 PM 10/31/02 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote: >At 1:52 PM -0800 10/31/02, Steve Schear wrote: >> AFAIK, the air >>supply aboard current U.S. fleets is shared between passengers and cockpit. > >IIRC, the regs call for pilots to either wear oxygen masks, or have "quick >to put on" masks readily at hand.
At 30K feet, you have about half a minute before you pass out from anoxia. That's why you put your O2 mask on before your kid's. [See for instance _Life at the Extremes_] Pilots probably have the same O2 system. Doubt they have adequate protection for toxics. Or atropine syringes.
