About Oxygen

What Every Pilot Should Know About Oxygen...

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What Is Air?

What Is Oxygen?

Why Is Oxygen So Important?

Where And How Do We Normally Obtain Our Oxygen?

How Much Oxygen Does The Human Body Need?

What Happens If The Body Does Not Receive Enough Oxygen?

What Are The Effects Of Hypoxia?

When And Why Must We Use Extra Oxygen?
Supplementary oxygen must be used to enrich the air we breathe to compensate for either a deficiency on the part of the individual or a deficiency of the atmosphere which we are breathing.

A person may have a respiratory or circulatory impairment which reduces the ability of the body to utilize the 21% oxygen in the air. For such a person, supplementary oxygen must be administered by oxygen tent or by oxygen mask to enrich the inhaled air by adding oxygen to it. The total volume of oxygen in each inhalation is then so much greater than normal that it compensates for the individual's own physical inability to utilize normal atmospheric oxygen.

When we ascend in altitude, a different condition is encountered, a condition in which the individual may be perfectly normal, but in which there is an oxygen deficiency in the atmosphere and supplementary oxygen must therefore be used.

Does The Percentage Of Oxygen In The Air Change With Altitude?

Why Must We Use Extra Oxygen When We Ascend In Altitude?

At What Altitudes Should Oxygen Be Used?

How Can You Tell When You Need Oxygen?

Are All Individuals Equally Affected By Hypoxia?

Is It True That Oxygen Is Toxic Or Harmful?

Why Not Use Oxygen Intermittently For Short Periods?

How Will Oxygen Equipment Improve The Utility Of The Airplane?

What Types Of Oxygen Equipment Are Available For Private And Executive Aircraft?

How Should An Oxygen System Or Equipment Be Selected?

Warning
Improper use or improper maintenance of aviation oxygen equipment may result in serious injury or death. AVOX Systems oxygen equipment is intended to be used only for aviation applications and is to be used only by, or under the supervision of, a pilot or crewmember trained and qualified in its use. AVOX Systems oxygen equipment is to be serviced only in accordance with the applicable component maintenance manual available from AVOX Systems and only by service technicians trained in the inherent hazards of high pressure aviation oxygen and knowledgeable of this equipment. The names of authorized service centers are available from AVOX Systems or your authorized AVOX Systems distributor. Aviation oxygen equipment is to be used only with aviator's breathing oxygen meeting the requirements of MIL-PRF-27210.