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Old Nov 3, 2005 | 1:56 pm
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Originally Posted by pdhenry
Pilots get ten times more oxygen than the passengers?!?


Sounds like a recipe for hyperventilation to me. Oxygen comprises about 21% of the air around us - ten times that amount would be a lotta oxygen indeed.

Pilots do have O2 masks at the ready, and for very real safety-related reasons.

I think brassai hit it on the head: the "expert" author Diana Fairechild reveals in this piece her complete ignorance on the subject of aircraft pressurization.
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