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.