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Article: 23,000 Feet and No Pressure--Where's That Green Whatchamacallit?(piot recounts experience, importance of emergency-oxygen handle)(Brief Article)
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- March 1, 2001
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How many times have you been behind the JBD and gone through your settle-off-the-cat procedures? How many times have you rogered the weight board and practiced touching the ejection-seat handle? How many times have you practiced finding the emergency-oxygen handle? In my case, for this last question at least, the answer was "Not enough."
It was during my first cruise. When we weren't flying combat missions over Kosovo, we'd fly training missions over the Ionian Sea. One night, I was scheduled for a Red Air AIC hop. There was an overcast layer at 13,000 feet, with layers reaching up to 26,000 feet. I had just launched and was proceeding to my cap point, climbing ...