High altitude oxygen needed

High altitude flight over the ocean, we had to wear oxygen masks to avoid hypoxia flying in the flight levels.

[Simon_B]

I hope that 83% reeding was an error, that is dangerously low

[DanFrederiksen]

I'm not an expert but it's my impression that 83% is in the deadly range. That it should be kept well above 90. That sustained 83% is as deadly as the wings falling off. A Cessna Citation crashed the other day presumably because of hypoxia. Imagine a little gremlin sitting on the wing with an electric saw. It's low key important.

[EnzoT]

in the US it’s above 12500 for 30 minutes without oxygen is allowed but for more than 30 minutes supplemental oxygen is required, Thanks for all the informative videos!!! really enjoy them 👊

[martinschlegel]

Lucky it doesn't apply to cars in Peru.

I drive around regularly at 16 000 feet aprox with my car. My father in law is from around 14 000 feet...

I mean 23 000 is some real altitude, that's over 7000 meters, heaven't been that high yet myself. Around 18 000 is more or less what I've been to (without oxygen). But I do sincerely consider buying supplemental oxygen for my car, had a passenger get altitude sick once and there is nothing you can do but drive on and try to get down the mountain as fast as possible.

[DJ_Force]

Pilots smart enough to check their O2 levels with a PulseOx.
Also, pilots not smart enough to use correctly.

[ThorPalsson]

Tragically 3 people died when a Cessna 172 crashed yesterday in Iceland

[youtuber]

Now imagine, somewhere in the Himalayas, the sherpas climb 8000 meteres without the need of oxygen masks. Truly impressive!

[pseudoMIMS]

I'm gonna say that the 83% sats was when it was in the middle of its usual erratic calibration 😂 because I don't want to imagine the outcome otherwise

[alexrandell]

bro knew exactly what he was doing when he put on those aviators

[FFPFilms]

Was there really something wrong with the masks, causing your Sp02 lvl to drop @StefanDrury?

[RedSailor]

Small correction: “the *PARTIAL PRESSURE* of oxygen is half what it would be on the ground”
Oxygen ‘amount’ is a pretty constant 21% for the entirety of the troposphere.
It’s the reduction in pressure (thus partial pressure) which doesn’t provide as much (or enough) force to squeeze the oxygen molecules through the alveoli and into the blood.

[MrMarkguth]

I often just squeeze my nail and watch the colour return

[tullochgorum]

A lot of people are going to feel very uncomfortable at well below 14k. I'm taking from personal experience.

[CarcoDev]

This is cool! Is the oxygen kept in a store-bought tank? And how much is required for that long of a flight?

[AymanRacing]

What aircraft are you in to go up to FL230? Honestly impressive

[rockstardonut]

Would a nose canula work? (Not sure how to spell that). Would be much more comfortable.

[antongrobl]

In Austria the rule is: all flights above 10.000ft for longer than 30 minutes are required to wear oxygen masks

[philliplarocque]

Not sure bout 14, 000? But oxygen should be used above 9000ft

[aar]

I don’t know why the o2 masks should be that uncomfortable. I wear a CPAP mask 7 hours a night, same concept. They just need to get better fitting equipment. If I were planning to fly and require supplemental O2 I’d be sure to have my own fitted mask, not a stock piece of plastic installed in the plane.

[nextbestmedic]

So many questions around a pulse oximetery precentage as a paramedic i would like to explain. They check their oxygen constantly. Which i believe one person took their reading then gave it to the other. With that the device would need to recalibrate when taken off the finger and with thise cheap devices even though accurate most of the time. Take some time to calibrate. Even my monitor that is 35000 dollars takes a few seconds to calibrate on a finger. It will show. 77% thrn slowly go up to 98%.