Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
Lets say you are a farmer living in the outback and visit the coast once a month or so. There will be times when going above 10,000 and getting above the inversion layer would be sensible. But. Hold on you can’t because you do not have an oxygen system fitted!
Is the farmer doing flights above 10,000ft now? If so then he will already have oxygen. So come p91 no big change.
New drivers after December will have to suit the new rules.
doesn’t sound like the new rules make it more expensive for the people already doing flights above 10k. Actually, considering they don’t have to use it above 10k (in certain circumstances), you could argue that it’s actually cheaper as they are not using oxygen and refilling bottles.
I wonder if there was resistance to implementing the original oxygen requirement when it first came in?
there is also no definition of “fitted with” in the new regs.
they do however in the plain English guide define “supplemental oxygen” and that is “means oxygen that is provided to an occupant of an aircraft by purpose designed equipment to supplement the oxygen available in the atmosphere inside the aircraft.”
So a purpose made portable bottle and gear carried, I believe, will suit the regs.
is this another mountain out of a molehill again?