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Those of you who haven't had the opportunity to "fly" in a military altitude
chamber and discover your own hypoxia symptoms should be aware that these
facilities are available to civilians.  It's a one-day training course
including classroom instruction and finishing off with the altitude chamber
experience.  I know they have these at Edwards AFB in southern California and
at Wright-Patterson in Dayton Ohio.  There are others, but I don't know where
they are.

I don't know how these are scheduled, but if your closest USAF base has an
altitude chamber, give 'em a call.  Does else know if there's a central
nationwide phone number?

This is really excellent training.  You really shouldn't even be flying
anyplace you need an oxygen mask without going thru the class.  (Please don't
dump on me too hard for this comment.  I just mean that you should be able to
recognize failures in your life-support system, and this class let's you do
that in a non-hazardous setting.)

- Rob Wolf

[Some years ago there were a few wave soaring operations that used to
use the hyperaric chamber at the Air Force Academy as part of their
training, so I'm pretty sure there's one available in Colorado Springs
as well.            <Marv>      ]
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