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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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writes:

Since most aircraft don't have oxygen, the question is rather pointless.

You can carry oxygen on board easily enough. It seems prudent to me to
always
have oxygen on board, but that's just me.

Sounds to me like you need oxygen just to fly your desk. It's useless to the
vast majority of GA flights.


If an aircraft does have oxygen, it most likely has the capability
of easily clearing mountains and the choice is obvious.

If the choice were obvious, I wouldn't ask.

The choice is extremely obvious to most any experienced pilot, and this is a
pilots forum.

wrote:
I will probably
never get an oxygen system as I fly for fun which means going
around the mountain is no issue...

You think going around is fun, just wait 'til you try going _through_ it!

:P

TheSmokingGnu

Maxwell writes:

Sounds to me like you need oxygen just to fly your desk. It's useless to the
vast majority of GA flights.

Sounds to me like you fly pretty low most of the time. Oxygen is useful even
at 5000 feet.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Maxwell writes:

Sounds to me like you need oxygen just to fly your desk. It's useless to
the
vast majority of GA flights.

Sounds to me like you fly pretty low most of the time. Oxygen is useful
even
at 5000 feet.

For what?

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Jim Logajan writes:

First reason:
He said he could have landed in the event of engine failure and there
was no persons or property at risk.

If he had to climb to avoid a barbed-wire fence, he wasn't high enough
to land safely. If the engine quits before he climbs for the fence,
he hits the fence,

Nope, wrong again, nmoron.


Bertie

On Apr 12, 12:27 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
If he had to climb to avoid a barbed-wire fence, he wasn't high enough to land
safely. If the engine quits before he climbs for the fence, he hits the
fence

So, your belief is that an airplane cannot climb (even 1 foot, which
is about what would be required in this case), once the engine stops?

Your simulator is not proving to be a good training tool...

Do you always keep oxygen on hand, or do you only bring it along if you
suspect you'll be needing it?

I take it only if I expect to need it, i.e. if headed for mountains.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Danny Deger writes:

You didn't read my post. I clearly stated I could have safely landed if
the
engine failed.

And if your engine quit before you could climb to avoid the barbed-wire
fence?

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It is called airspeed.

Danny Deger

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TheSmokingGnu wrote:
wrote:
I will probably
never get an oxygen system as I fly for fun which means going
around the mountain is no issue...

You think going around is fun, just wait 'til you try going _through_ it!

I don't get you.

Why would I ever try that?

I only fly VFR and for fun; i.e. I have no schedule to make and if
I don't like what I see ahead of me, I go somewhere else.

--
Jim Pennino

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Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

Since most aircraft don't have oxygen, the question is rather pointless.

You can carry oxygen on board easily enough. It seems prudent to me to always
have oxygen on board, but that's just me.

Real oxygen in real airplanes costs real money and real weight.

Since in most GA aircraft it is a struggle to get to an altitude
where oxygen is required and except around places like the Rockies
seldom necessary to go that high, most people don't bother with it.

If an aircraft does have oxygen, it most likely has the capability
of easily clearing mountains and the choice is obvious.

If the choice were obvious, I wouldn't ask.

It is obvious to people that fly real airplanes.

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Jim Pennino

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