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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:38:14 +1000, "John Ward"
<johnrmward@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>Couldn't agree more - CRaSH is a true Classic!
>
>JW
>"Arthur" <simmeronlo@rogers.com> wrote in message
>news:N8qdnf9kzYXCC5PeRVn-oA@rogers.com...
>> Great story, CRaSH......you slay me sometimes : )
>>
>> Arthur
>>
>> "CRaSH" <sorry@aint-here.spam.com> wrote in message
>> news:GauPe.125013$E95.24770@fed1read01...
>>> Dallas wrote:
>>>> "GeoffC"
>>>>> Are you talking GA or commercial, and normal or emergency ops.
>>>>
>>>> Normal GA ops. I was at 10k feet last night with a Cessna single in
>>>> the mountains and the airfield was at 600 feet. I *could* get down
>>>> pretty fast, but I could also blow out my eardrums (virtually
>>>> speaking
🙂.
Descents will definately not blow your ear drums out. In maybe, but
not out.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think goin down from 10K is goin to hurt anyone, without rippin
>>> the blinkin wings off the aircraft maun, but further up (altitude) it
In an unpressurized plane about a 1000 fpm from 10,000 is about as
fast as you will want to descend unless everyone has very good sinuses
that are open and free. Any congestion at all and you will be in
pain. With plugged sinuses 3,000 feet is enough to shatter bone.
>>> does. I was on a 727 the night Tricky Dicky resigned, leaving
>>> Indianapolis we were on board at the gate at the terminal, the captain
>>> put his "goodbye" speech on the intercom, the passengers applauded
>>> afterwards, and we were off to Kansas City. Somewhere in between over FL
>>> 030, about the time the stew was by our seat with the drink cart,
>>> everyones ears started popping, etc., the oxygen masks dropped from the
>>> overhead, women & girlie boys started screeming, the captain put it into
>>> a emergencey dive to FL010, and I observed the following: the seats in
>>> front of me were empty - the seats in front of that had a middle aged man
>>> going out of his mind because the masks in that row hadn't dropped, even
>>> though there was NO sign of any actual oxygen diprivation to anyone
Most people would have been in pain at that point due to the drastic
reduction in pressure, not from the rapid descent.
At altitude you have about 10 to 20 seconds of consciouness with a
complete loss of pressure without supplemental Oxygen.
The people don't notice the lack of Oxygen. The sensitive ones notice
the drop in pressure.
Take a ride in the altitude chamber. They take you up, check you out
and blow the diaphram. Then you set there talking over the intercom
and writting your name. Nealy every one thinks they are doing one
great job until they see what they wrote and hear how they sounded.
In general, altitude sickness, or Oxygen depravation is like losing
your judgemental ability or getting drunk. You lose the ability to
recognize that there is anything wrong.
A few people suffer side effects shuch as nausia, gas (don't eat beans
before a chamber test<LOL>) but it's not funny as it can cause
unbelieveable pain and the equivelant of what divers call rapture of
the deep.
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
>>> so I stood up on my seat and reached over to poke him on his sweaty head
>>> that there were three masks hanging in the row behind him, unused - he
>>> didn't go around the passegeway, but rather leaped over the seat backs to
>>> get one of the masks, totally un-needed, behind him. In the meantime, my
>>> seat mate, and I, helped ourselves to a six pack of beer on the cart
>>> abandented by the stew to help the other panicking passengers. When she
>>> returned a little later, after we had reached a "safe" altitude, she
>>> noticed the half dozen empty beer bottles, and declined our offer to pay
>>> for our indulgance while plummenting to our death.......... Of course we
>>> might have actually plummented to our death, but............... Actual
>>> problem was the crew lost automatic cabin pressure and had to resort to
>>> manual, which was a very finicky process according to my CFI, who was
>>> then a TWA 1st officer...
>>>
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