Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:53:02 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com ([66.75.160.17] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.5) with ESMTP id 2620380 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:27:29 -0400 Received: from walter (cpe-24-161-204-235.bak.rr.com [24.161.204.235]) by orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with SMTP id h91KMuk22841 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:22:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-Message-ID: <004501c3885b$4f862a20$ebcca118@bak.rr.com> From: "Walter Dodson" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" References: Subject: Re: Loss of pressurization X-Original-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:33:44 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 To add just one more bit to this thread, I suffered an unscheduled loss of cabin pressure in a Morane-Saulnier Paris II many years ago when I was young and strong. At 24,000 feet over Canada at the time I immediately exhaled involuntarily and was amazed as my sight quickly went to tunnel vision with little color. I sat there some what stupified for many seconds before reacting to the problem at hand. It was really a shock to learn how fast ones faculties depart and stupor sets in. We pulled ourselves together and started a decent while communicating with ATC. We never did use the oxygen as we got down pretty fast to a reasonable altitude. I might suggest to those who fly high, wear the mask around your neck so you only need to open the bottle to start flow. You might want to take a safety pilot along and do some research into your own personal critical altitude. Walter Dodson IV-P for sale (so sad)