Oxygen PSI
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This brings me to a question: I recall the manual states that at 40000 ft there is less than a minute of oxygen. How do you drop to a safe altitude (like 12000 ft) in that amount of time, in real life?
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Yes that is what I thought, and I am also asking because I see this slight depletion in the Hotstart TBM 900. So my question was more: is this something yet to be simulated more precisely or is the Starship using another system
@ADFGVX Oxygen depletion has been realistically simulated in all of my aircraft starting with the Analog Caravan. You will see oxygen be consumed according to the occupancy and weight of your passengers, and the current cabin altitude.
Oxygen is only consumed when the system is deployed, manually or automatically, in the event of a high altitude cabin. It is also consumed while testing the crew oxygen masks, though probably in amounts too small to tell.
@Marionettework That's 1-2 minutes of useful consciousness without supplemental oxygen. The duration that the oxygen system will last depends on occupancy.
You can also monitor the blood oxygen concentration of the pilot with the pulse oximeter on the cabin visualizer. The extreme temperature (blue and red) LED's on the instrument panel will also flash alternately when the cabin altitude is dangerously high (~15,000ft) and the oxygen system should be deployed.
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This brings me to a question: I recall the manual states that at 40000 ft there is less than a minute of oxygen. How do you drop to a safe altitude (like 12000 ft) in that amount of time, in real life?
Gear down, props fine, right back to flight idle, pitch down to peg it at max gear speed.
But ultimately - that's why there's quick-don masks so the crew can retain consciousness during the rapid descent.
Patrick
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Gear down, props fine, right back to flight idle, pitch down to peg it at max gear speed.
But ultimately - that's why there's quick-don masks so the crew can retain consciousness during the rapid descent.
Patrick
