Originally Posted by
island_airphoto
But you are NOT mandating USING it, just carrying it around. We actually tried really hard to get O2 for the delivery and it proved impossible, no one seemed to have it and the one place that finally did got the tanks to the FBO in California about the time we ended up in Maryland 3,000 miles away.
Nope, but the mandate would have meant that for your flight you would have had to delay until the O2 was delivered then you would have had it to use to mitigate that fatigue you mentioned. The fact is without a mandate like this you were legally able to depart on a flight that you willingly acknowledge afterwards had a fatigue factor you could have mitigated by delaying by a day or two.