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Old November 6th 15, 03:30 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default Oxygen regulators, medical type

Mountain High...

On 11/6/2015 5:52 AM, Tango Eight wrote:
They don't have any built in back up protection, even in the event that the battery just runs down. Really?


I was at 17,900' about 90 miles from home in the Colorado Rockies when
my Mountain High system began chirping its alarm. I flew a high speed
final glide home (there was a lot of lift to reduce descent) thinking I
was out of oxygen. On the ground, I found plenty of O2 in my tank so I
swapped the batteries in the electronic box and everything went back to
normal. I had the batteries in the cockpit but didn't think of swapping
until I was on the ground.

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Dan, 5J