Quote: (Originally Posted by PCDiver)
You also have to think about gas donated from a buddy (team bailout). If all bailout bottles had a GCS connector, the procedure could be:
- take stage from buddy
- switch to off-board regulator
- disconnect empty bottle from GCS
- connect full tank to GCS
- open new tank
- switch to BOV
You could do this transition by switching on the onboard gas and breathing that for the time it takes to hook up the new offboard, saves deploying the stowed reg! Although the male end of the GCS (connected to the manifold) would be pressurised (or perhaps not if the one way valves are used) the female end would not be, and that's the one that needs to be depressurised to allow easy connection...