Title: Why Fighter Pilots Wear Masks - to avoid hypoxia symptems
Headings: Jet Friday: Why Fighter Pilots Wear Masks
Jet Friday: Why Fighter Pilots Wear Masks
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Content: Why Fighter Pilots Wear Masks - to avoid hypoxia symptems
Jet Friday: Why Fighter Pilots Wear Masks
by Lee Cloer | Apr 14, 2017 | General Interest, Jet Fridays, Video
Watch Video Below We grow up dreaming of flying. When you are on a commercial jet aircraft, like a passenger airliner, the cabin you sit in is pressurized and you are able to conduct your business without a mask for oxygen. If an incident occurs when the aircraft is above 15,000 feet and the cabin depressurizes, leading to those little masks dropping out of the ceiling, what will happen if you do not put the mask on? Also, why do fighter pilots wear masks over their faces when they fly? To answer the first question, what happens if you don’t put on the oxygen mask immediately if there is sudden decompression in the cabin? You would get loopy and pass out. Hopefully, you are not the pilot at that moment. The pilot’s first response would be to put their mask on and then begin to descend to 10,000 feet if the terrain allowed. The passengers and pilots would then be safe without masks on until they could make an emergency landing.