X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao12.cox.net ([68.230.241.27] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 624795 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:07:17 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.27; envelope-from=ALVentures@cox.net Received: from BigAl ([68.7.14.39]) by fed1rmmtao12.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050804170631.XNYC550.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@BigAl> for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:06:31 -0400 From: "Al Gietzen" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: Back from Osh Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:06:33 -0700 Message-ID: <000001c59916$ddd54900$6400a8c0@BigAl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C598DC.3178BAF0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C598DC.3178BAF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =20 Bad news was that top of cloud cover kept rising as I flew across = Georgia and eventually reached 18,000 ft by the time I reached the southern edge = of cloud cover near Florida border. Did I mention that I have no Oxygen on board? By the time I spiraled down through closely spaced thunderstorms in = Florida I had spent about 2 hours between 16 and 18 thousand feet. It was a = fairly high stress period. =20 Very glad to you got through it safely. That's the trouble with = deciding to go over the top; you don't know how high you're going to have to go. = That amount of time at those altitudes and under stress can result is serious hypoxia. And some 3G maneuvers? O-o-o-o; no wonder you had symptoms of = a heart attack. Please don't do that again; you'll give me a heart attack = (I'm sure Laura has said that a few times). =20 Al ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C598DC.3178BAF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

 

Bad news was that top of cloud cover kept rising as I flew across = Georgia and eventually reached 18,000 ft by the time I reached the southern = edge of cloud cover near Florida border.  Did I mention that I have = no Oxygen on board?

By the time I spiraled down through closely spaced thunderstorms in = Florida I had spent about 2 hours between 16 and 18 thousand feet.  It = was a fairly high stress period.

 

Very glad to you got through it = safely.  That’s the trouble with deciding to go over the top; you don’t know how = high you’re going to have to go.  That amount of time at those altitudes and = under stress can result is serious hypoxia.  And some 3G maneuvers? =  O-o-o-o; no wonder you had symptoms of a heart attack. Please don’t do that = again; you’ll give me a heart attack (I’m sure Laura has said that = a few times).

 

Al

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