zombie5225
New Member
I went to the Andrews AFB altitude chamber today. Talk about fun!! Started the day out with about three hours of ground. Mostly dealing with effects of high altitude, respiratory system, inner ear.... Then it was off to the chamber. We did half an hour at sea level pressure on 100% O2 to clear out the nitrogen out of the body. After that we went up to 8,000 ft. Masks off, time for rapid decompression up to FL250. Once there we did the hypoxia demo. This was where it got fun. We got a worksheet with your signature, math problems, and a maze. I signed the first line right away no problem. Got down to the math problems, I decided 467+345 required to much thought, skip to the maze. I had trouble doing a simple maze!! After that everything got blurry, I was getting dizzy and light headed. I remember trying to sign my name again, and I remember turning the air back on to my mask. That's about it. According to the rest of the guys I was out cold. After that it was down to FL200 for vision testing. It was a card with a circle in 8 different colors and an airplane in the middle. You stared at the plane while off O2. When you go back on O2 its like somebody turned on the lights!!
All in all it was alot of fun and a great learning experience!!
All in all it was alot of fun and a great learning experience!!