Originally Posted by
Magplug
As an ex-military pilot I was obliged to carry out depressurisation training at two-yearly intervals throughout my service. After I moved to the airlines I never understood why that was not mandated for professionally licenced airline pilots.
Even trained military aviators sometimes don't recognise the symptoms. An F/A-18 pilot I know in the RAAF was last seen by his wingman in a gentle climb through 51,000 ft over the Gulf of Carpentaria with his oxygen mask dangling, the wingmen hit bingo fuel and had to RTB.