At 09:09 04 October 2019, Tango Whisky wrote:
Le jeudi 3 octobre 2019 22:30:05 UTC+2, Jonathon May a
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At 18:22 03 October 2019, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Jonathon May wrote on 10/3/2019 9:55 AM:
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I have been using a Dive type cylinder because they are
easier=20
to
get re filled.
Last Saturday I was flying with the bottle on but the
regulator=20
off
above a ridge trying to connect to the wave system.
About 1 hour in and 2700ft asl there was a loud pop and
bottle
pressure O2 started blowing into the cockpit .
I could not turn the bottle off so I opened the DV window
put a
Pan call out and got it back on the glider field in about 3=20
minuets .
I have never been so scared ,and I have loads of field
landings=20
and
thousands of hours in gliders.

I had a similar experience thus summer - the connector on the MH
regulator
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obviously had worn out over the about 20 years of use and
decided to let
go=
the connecting hose to the EDS unit.
I can't reach the cylinder inflight without an immense effort of
wiggling
m=
yself, and as I was close to the rocks trying to get the first climb
of
the=
day, I just kept on flying. The oxygene pressure on the outlet of
the
regu=
lator is 2 bars or less, so it can't do any harm.


That seems reasonable,I had 200Bar bottle pressure.