Best Oxygen Setup?

I used to have a Calif as well, and I managed to install a 10 liter cylinder between/behind the seats. With the EDS, that goes a long way ;-)

On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 12:09:07 AM UTC-4, Tango Whisky wrote:
I used to have a Calif as well, and I managed to install a 10 liter cylinder between/behind the seats. With the EDS, that goes a long way ;-)

Really? Which Serial # did you own?
I got the original Caproni O2 brackets and installed the longest aluminum tank that fits through the main bulkhead between the seats. I can turn on and off the tank, see the gauge and the operate the EDS. Nothing beats a roomy cockpit! ;-)

Uli
'AS'

Le mardi 1 octobre 2019 14:31:00 UTC+2, AS a écritÂ*:
On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 12:09:07 AM UTC-4, Tango Whisky wrote:
I used to have a Calif as well, and I managed to install a 10 liter cylinder between/behind the seats. With the EDS, that goes a long way ;-)

Really? Which Serial # did you own?
I got the original Caproni O2 brackets and installed the longest aluminum tank that fits through the main bulkhead between the seats. I can turn on and off the tank, see the gauge and the operate the EDS. Nothing beats a roomy cockpit! ;-)

Uli
'AS'

I owned S/N 38, F-CEUD (which I changed into D-6600 upon acquisition). Flew it for about 600 hrs from 1998 to 2005 in the French Alps. Absolute fantastic glider, very fond memories ;-)
The tank I installed did just fit through the main bulkhead and reached all the way back to the rear bulkhead. I installed a kind of swing at the rear bulkhead on which the bottom of the tank rested (and fixed by the horizontal part underneath the central wing section). In the main bulkhead, the top of the tank was fixed by a trap obtained from Gomolzig such that the valve protruded into the cockpit. Removal and installation could be done with the wings mounted by guiding it via the access hole above/behind the main bulkhead. And no, I never showed this to a German inspector :-D But as I said, 10 liters at 200 bars do last quite some time...

I do a reasonable amount of altitude flying here in Scotland.
I live at sea level, smoke, drink profusely (has health benefits . . some)
Get any MH EDS system, you really don't have to go as big on a bottle as
you'd think. If you have easy access to O2, go "medium" on bottle
selection, and steel for the bottle if weight is not an issue.

I routinely get 30+ hours on a very small bottle and that is based on
wearing the system at the launch point (at sea level) to counter hangovers,

then keeping it on all flight (as it is zero hassle and I'm a lazy
b'stard)
The cannula system works very well up to fL200 and allows smoking whilst
flying . . (I'm not at all sure it's rated for it, but it does work)

You smoke while using pure oxygen??? This must be a joke.

On Wednesday, 2 October 2019 07:59:10 UTC+10, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net wrote:
You smoke while using pure oxygen??? This must be a joke.

I guess he must synchronise the puffs from the cannula and the puffs from the cigarette.

Paul

Many moons ago when I was a junior hospital doctor in a chest ward the preferred oxygen mask for low concentration O2 was the "Edinburgh mask" which had a circular hole in the front with the O2 nozzle entering at its lower circumference. Some of the chest patients loved it because they could smoke through the hole. As was demonstrated to me by a marginally less junior doctor, if you held the lit cig tip directly in the O2 outlet flow it just glowed brighter. Oxygen doesn't burn, it burns.

On 10/1/19 3:59 PM, John DeRosa OHM Ω http://aviation.derosaweb.net wrote:
You smoke while using pure oxygen??? This must be a joke.



Proves once again Darwinism isn't perfect.