jimp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In rec.aviation.owning Bertie the Bunyip <AA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> jimp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote in news:0046p5-c0p.ln1
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>>
>>> In rec.aviation.owning BobR <reed1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> On Sep 4, 1:25?pm, j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>>>> In rec.aviation.owning Mxsmanic <mxsma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> >> As for smoking, that is utter, pulled out of your ass,
nonsense.
>>>>>
>>>>> > Not when the air is thin.
>>>>>
>>>>> More ignorant nonsense; if it were true about half the population
of
>>>>> Peru would be incapacitated.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jim Pennino
>>>>>
>>>>> Remove .spam.sux to reply.
>>>>
>>>> Your knowledge of this subject is so seriously limited that you
>>>> really need to drop out of the discussion before you make yourself
>>>> look really stupid. The people of Peru who live at high altitudes
>>>> have become acclimated to the altitude and are not as subject to
>>>> altitude sickness as those who live at lower altitudes. Smoking
has
>>>> the direct effect of dimini****ng the ability of the lungs to absorb
>>>> oxygen which becomes especially critical at higher altitudes.
>>>> Smokers who are not acclimated to the altitude and who take off
from
>>>> lower altitudes and asscend to altitude can easily become oxygen
>>>> starved resulting in numerous possible medical problems.
>>>
>>> Point totally missed.
>>>
>>> 1) No one becomes "immediately incapacitated", whatever that means,
>>> from smoking.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Depends on what you mean by that. Smoking will exacerbate any
situation
>> where breathing sails close to the edge, like a sudden loss of
>> pressurisation or if the individual has been comprimised and
breathing
>> becomes difficult. Like someone who has been badly inured and is
>> comatose. All other factors being equal, if the individual has been
>> pushed to the edge in a situation like this, a history of smoking
will
>> push them over it.
>
> And in what kind of situation is any of that likely to happen to a
> private pilot?
>
Well, there are a lot of private pilots operating airplanes at high
altitudes these days.
Leaving that aside, my intention as to highlight the damage done and how
that can comprimise someone operating at or near their limit. It's
something else stacked against you in a bad situation. .
What do peruvian mountain dwellers have to do with private pilots?
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