The Aerospace Physiology test went well enough, didn't score that high but I got above an 85 so I passed as the whole class did this time. Monday we did the Oxygen Chamber before the test and it was pretty cool. We went up to 35,000' and leveled off then back down and leveled off at 25,000' where we did the hypoxia "demo". It was pretty cool to see the different effects people experience when they lose oxygen. For myself, I started feeling very hot and tingly, plus we had this worksheet with math problems and little puzzles on it and I did some of it but just had no interest in doing multiplication or subtraction problems. I went back on Oxygen and a few others decided to hold out and it was pretty funny. One guy was told to count back from 100 by 4's and it went something like 100, 96, 92, 84, 90, 86, 78, and that's about as far as he made it.
Today was the last day of aerospace phys and was all untestable material so it made for a pretty easy day discussing crew resources and making good decisions.
I picked up a bunch more food at the commisary in my effort to be slightly more healthy and save a little money. We start looking at T-6 Systems this week and that will definitely be more interesting.
3 comments:
Greetings CJ from Venezuela. Glad to hear you finished Physiology as it can be a bit dry. Hey how about that hypoxia stuff, what a strange feeling. I remember playing patty cake with someone, and we got to the point that we couldn't make our hands meet but every 5th try. Of course you remember the hypoxia demo in the movie Officer and a gentleman. What's next in the ground school curriculum? Do you really know that you will be done in 53 weeks? With weather and all I find that a bit presumptuous. Hope your feeling well and that you are getting psyched to start flying the T6. What a great training platform.
Talk to you soon.
Love Dad
2 things.
1. Hi CJ's dad.. i remember talking to you that one day about jugo de naranja/jugo de chino. Hope you're doing well :)
2. CJ i'm proud you are making it through these crazy chambers and such. Remember that time we went on mission space at epcot?? That was more G force than I ever wanted.. and i will never do it again. ha!
Hey C.J., your blog is excellent.I'm glad I can get updated on your progress by way of a nice website layout complete with pictures and posts. When you start flying you should mount a camera to your helmet and put the videos on your site. Just a thought. I look forward to reading your posts in the future so keep at it, apparently this is gaining quite the fanbase.
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