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Joe Trepicone asks:
Has anyone out there
stowed their EOS fase masks in the head liner area in the top of the IV
fuselage? ...
Joe,
We looked carefully at this for
Jim's and my airplanes, and the conclusion was that there is scant room for
anything between the head liner and the heads of pilot, crew and passengers.
Even the air conditioner box between the rear seats impinges on the head room of
rear seat passengers.
We made "containers" for ours out
of lexan refrigerator storage boxes and mounted them under the arm rests so
the snap on covers were flush with the inside panel. The O2 is plumbed into each
box, and the masks normally stay connected for the front seats;
disconnected for the rear seats. Plug in the rear masks if you're carrying
passengers. Activate the system by turning on the master valve at the
bottle--located in front of the main spar box, with valve/regulator positioned
under the emergency gear pump. It's easily reached/activated from either
front seat. Has worked well--so
far.
Bottom line is that it will be
difficult to fold/flatten the EOS mask to less than about 2", and that seemed
too much head room to give up.\
Bob
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