Chugalug,
I'm not really a good witness in these matters - having had a go in one fifty years ago and never set eyes on the kit since. I'd never thought about them being used on blazing oil/gas rigs (for a start, you'd have to forget about the
nylon line I suggested). We really had in mind just old fashioned British brick/concrete/stone edifices when eight floors was a skyscraper to us, and we didn't have "towering infernos" - we had no towers !
I don't know how high they proposed to go with the Davy idea, but I imagine it would be a bit hairy when you got past ten floors. (Does the DONUT system have anything like the the Davy centrifugal brake ?)
"Tripped or fallen at work ?"
.....Hard luck, old chap - should've looked where you were going ! (always the stiff upper lip).
Can
nobody get our page back to proper width, so I can read it without sliding it from side to side ? (Or is the fog just in
my cockpit ?)
Danny.