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Old 8th May 2020, 10:25
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Originally Posted by wiggy


Having spent my formative years flying around wearing a well fitting mask all the time I'd politely suggest from a psychological POVthat would be a step too for many/most regular men or women off the streets.

There would also be some practical problems:, for example to avoid breathing recirculated air you couldn't use a regulator with an "airmix" setting that mixes cabin air with the bottled gas, so everything you breath would have to come out of the bottle/tank - given that have you given any thought to how much bottled air you'd need to carry, even for a short haul sector, for the passengers..the scuba divers amongst us will no doubt be able to give us a clue.

If your idea is that instead of bottled gas you re-plumb/reroute an element of the Bleed air/AC system to feed the masks then aside from the engineering issue and weight problems you end up back with the psychological issues of expecting Mrs Miggins, aged 80, or master Miggins, aged 3, being expected to mask up for the flight..
Not entirely sure advocating carrying undeclared DGR is a clever idea.
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