Anyone fly KASE?

Oddly enough, in many of the full-motion simulators there's a tank
of O2 that feeds into the cockpit of the trainers. Why, you may ask?
Because when the alarm goes off indicating loss of pressurization,
the pilots grab the fast-donning O2 masks. There were some problems,
such as the fact that the masks fit so well (as they are supposed to
do) that the people couldn't breathe! So when training for loss of
pressure, the staff makes sure the O2 bottles are connected and
turned on.

Acutally, for training purposes, I think they use bottled air,
not O2.

Blanche writes:

Oddly enough, in many of the full-motion simulators there's a tank
of O2 that feeds into the cockpit of the trainers. Why, you may ask?
Because when the alarm goes off indicating loss of pressurization,
the pilots grab the fast-donning O2 masks. There were some problems,
such as the fact that the masks fit so well (as they are supposed to
do) that the people couldn't breathe! So when training for loss of
pressure, the staff makes sure the O2 bottles are connected and
turned on.

You mean they don't realize that they are just playing a game?

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Mxsmanic wrote:

Blanche writes:

Oddly enough, in many of the full-motion simulators there's a tank
of O2 that feeds into the cockpit of the trainers. Why, you may ask?
Because when the alarm goes off indicating loss of pressurization,
the pilots grab the fast-donning O2 masks. There were some problems,
such as the fact that the masks fit so well (as they are supposed to
do) that the people couldn't breathe! So when training for loss of
pressure, the staff makes sure the O2 bottles are connected and
turned on.

You mean they don't realize that they are just playing a game?

No -- they are training either to check out in the real thing or are
taking recurrency raining. It is NOT a game there!

Orval Fairbairn writes:

No -- they are training either to check out in the real thing or are
taking recurrency raining. It is NOT a game there!

But it's a simulation ... and all simulations are games, right? How foolish
they are to grab oxygen masks! Real Pilots wouldn't mistake a game for the
real thing, would they?

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Orval Fairbairn writes:

No -- they are training either to check out in the real thing or are
taking recurrency raining. It is NOT a game there!

But it's a simulation ... and all simulations are games, right? How
foolish they are to grab oxygen masks! Real Pilots wouldn't mistake
a game for the real thing, would they?

No, the one you play with is a game.

Gig 601XL Builder writes:

No, the one you play with is a game.

What makes my simulator different?

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Gig 601XL Builder writes:
No, the one you play with is a game.

What makes my simulator different?

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You are discussing a full-motion simulator with drop down oxygen
masks. And you have to ask how it differs from MSFS on your PC?

Mxsmanic wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder writes:

No, the one you play with is a game.

What makes my simulator different?

Look at the URL for Microsoft's own website for the product,

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulatorx

Note the word 'games' in the path.

Philip Morten