Originally Posted by
Hogg
Yesterday I spoke to a line engineer who works for various companies in Europe on a few biz jets types and he remarked that when some of these aircraft are on longish layovers a procedure is to turn off the oxygen valve in hot conditions to stop any leaking. Anyone hear of this procedure?
It wouldn’t be unusual in case of a leaky mask.
Or upon arrival requested an oxygen top off and the bottle valve was left closed.
Without wearing the shoulder harness it’s possible to end up with the upper body slumped over on the empty co-pilot seat.
I find it very challenging to have to hand fly a single pilot fighter at FL360 close enough to be able to see any but the very obvious, no face in the window.
In the case of Steward Payne’s Learjet the windows were also frosted over.