Oxygen regulators, medical type

Amazing, with all due respect a class in logic might help. If systems designed and tested for aviation can fail then what are the chances of a medical system not designed nor tested for aviation could fail. I wrote of the kinked hose, and took steps to not have that happen again, plus I now fly with EDS. I did not have a logic jump that thought "gee this system was designed for aviation and failed, so why don't I make a system out of the cheapest parts I can. If you are oxygen depraved you will not be checking a flow meter, nor understand what it is telling you. Did you notice how no thinks this is a good idea?

Sounds like a candidate for the darwin award, and the absolute fixed thinker award. I remember seeing a news clip about an idiot that was trying to fill a gas tank at night from a can, couldn't see so they lit a match.



On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 11:13:08 AM UTC-8, wrote:
A lot of people are flying with systems designed for aviation but made 20, 40, even 60 years ago. And besides mechanical failures, other things can go wrong - see some anecdotes posted above and below, such as kinks in hoses, hoses pulled off of a fitting, etc. No matter how official and expensive a system is, I would use a flow meter to verify the flow (and still need to check that hose still reaches the mask etc). An exception is an EDS system, for which a flow meter is useless. But at least you can feel the puffs of gas in your nose (if using a cannula), and the EDS at least has built-in alarms for some sorts of faults.

This reminds me of a BG-12 owner I knew a while back. He cut a 12 X 12 " hole in the aft fuselage, so he could inspect and lube things in there. Fitted his custom hatch with a couple of hinges and a little sliding latch. Several pilots tried to tell him he had drastically weakened the structure, because the skin was most of the structure.
He wouldn't hear a word of it.
About 6 months later, he didn't return after the days flying. Search plane found the wreckage near Strawberry strip. We couldn't tell if the boom broke in flight or during what looked like a cart-wheel maneuver, but the fuselage broke right through his little hatch!
I figure 2% will never get the word,
JJ