Quote: (Originally Posted by
PhilSiswick)
An interesting thought and one we may forget easily. When I learned to fly, my instructor told me that three most useless things to me were: fuel in the bowser on the ground, height above me and runway behind me :-) Available and accessible gas in cylinders when you've stopped breathing is probably even less use than those!
Cheers,
Fuel? -Shrug- I'm a glider pilot
Other than that I concur.
On topic: My instructor told me that OC is always an option (BOV) but you should go SC to buy yourself extra time when possible (which may well be after goiing OC to start with). All the loop tricks are great if you really have to use them and remain at the same depth. I read an article from Richard Pyle describing even more advanced loop mixing but am inclined to say that you screwed up bigtime (or are an alpinist) if you have to resort to that.