
enjolras
Dead are useless if not to love the living more
- Feb 13, 2020
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Howdy, I was an airline pilot ...student in another life. Didn't have the pleasure to pass depressurisation tests, stopped before the career
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Inserting these captions cause they tend to state that the experience can vary by basis, but also depending on your starting condition... it seems to go in conjunction with the PPH that also states those with respiratory problems may not be the best candidates for the exit bag method.
No, and I don't remember the doctor saying anything about that before we went. The training got depicted in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman," and one of the guys freaks out, maybe that's become connected to the idea. I can't say. And it's been almost 50 years since I did it, but I have a keen memory of just kinda of pleasantly slipping off somewhere. That's why they train aviators to recognize hypoxia before it takes hold, because once you're in it and the conditions don't change to increase oxygen to the brain, well...you're going for the whole ride. (Hypoxia doesn't get talked about enough with these methods. Inert-gas-in-bag, compression of baroreceptors, etc., all cause death by hypoxia.)

Hypoxia | SKYbrary Aviation Safety
Hypoxia is defined as a lack of oxygen in the body tissues. During flight, the most common cause for this is breathing air at high altitude.




Inserting these captions cause they tend to state that the experience can vary by basis, but also depending on your starting condition... it seems to go in conjunction with the PPH that also states those with respiratory problems may not be the best candidates for the exit bag method.
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