Smokehoods
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Smokehoods
Anyone who would like to share opinions/stories/experiences about (the use of) smokehoods? I am particularly interested in your evaluation of the devices your company uses or that are built in the planes you fly with.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
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I seem to remember this subject on a BBC program many years ago. Nothing seems to have happened since then for whatever reason or another. Would a hood be any use unless it either had portable O2 or a good filter?
Another BBC program discussed an additive to aircraft fuel that would make it "jellify" when a tank burst (in a crash) but again it would have cost a lot of money to develop and to deploy - for a perhaps limited "result" in the overall scheme of things.
See also the thread regarding "fire-proof clothing" on the same board here.
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Another BBC program discussed an additive to aircraft fuel that would make it "jellify" when a tank burst (in a crash) but again it would have cost a lot of money to develop and to deploy - for a perhaps limited "result" in the overall scheme of things.
See also the thread regarding "fire-proof clothing" on the same board here.
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Salesman,
Not sure what kind of info you're looking for (and your profile wasn't particaularly helpful either!)
Anyway, our company uses the type of hood with it's own O2 generator, a neckseal and full head and upper-body protection.
We practice with the things regularly by having to put them on in a smoke filled environment and then having to extinguish a fire.
They're pretty claustrophobic, the breathing resistance can get fairly troublesome, but I'm happy we carry them on our planes. The smokehood improves our chances of fighting a fire effectively and that's worth any small incovenience.
Hope this is of use.
JL
Not sure what kind of info you're looking for (and your profile wasn't particaularly helpful either!)
Anyway, our company uses the type of hood with it's own O2 generator, a neckseal and full head and upper-body protection.
We practice with the things regularly by having to put them on in a smoke filled environment and then having to extinguish a fire.
They're pretty claustrophobic, the breathing resistance can get fairly troublesome, but I'm happy we carry them on our planes. The smokehood improves our chances of fighting a fire effectively and that's worth any small incovenience.
Hope this is of use.
JL
