How to drink at alt?

[PeteMc]

8 hours ago, tgardnerh said:

After moving to Salt Lake my tolerance for altitude seems to have improved

Although you can feel better when visiting high altitudes (skiing, etc.) in day or two, your body takes about a month+ to acclimate to the higher altitude.  So assuming you've been in Salt Lake for a while, that's your new norm.  Go back to visit friends at Sea Level and they'll wonder where you got all your energy!  

[drifter001]

On 4/26/2022 at 9:32 PM, carusoam said:

Hey @drifter001…

See if any of this discussion helps you out… with your O2 system research.

Go MS!

Best regards,

-a-

Awesome. Thanks much!!

[Will.iam]

13 hours ago, tgardnerh said:

I'm curious--do you also have a high alcohol tolerance?
When I lived at sea level I found 8,000 ft was about equivalent to one beer for me, and one beer is enough that my driving a car would be reckless, both of which I gather are unusually low tolerances.
After moving to Salt Lake my tolerance for altitude seems to have improved whole my tolerance for alcohol has further diminished.


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I’m a super light weight with alcohol. My wife can easily drink me under the table. But my O2 is better than hers at alt and even when it gets lower I’m still more alert than she is. Maybe my kidneys are alcohol chalkenged?

[PeteMc]

Didn't really think to address the "how to" since so many others were, but then I got to thinking about our process.

Usually fly in the high teens, but wouldn't really matter if we were always in the FLs.  We don't like to fly legs much longer than 4 hours just because when you add the taxi times on each end you're sitting for quite a while.  So we usually break out the water about 30-60 min. before landing (for obvious bio reasons).  And somewhere in that window you're going to be starting down and can switch back to the cannulas.

So the mask has never been a consideration, but as others have said, just pull it down while you're eating or drinking and then put it back on between bites or sips.  (Wait...  Are we talking about in the Mooney or on a commercial flight??? )

 

[thinwing]

this is actually a good question and the reason for it no body has discussed yet...we tend to mouth breathe while on the o2 mask...tends to be very drying and after a couple hours a drink of water feels very good...so I just slip the mask down or off and have at it..than replace...hardley a blip on the oxymeter

[Pinecone]

On 4/28/2022 at 11:47 PM, tgardnerh said:

I'm curious--do you also have a high alcohol tolerance?
When I lived at sea level I found 8,000 ft was about equivalent to one beer for me, and one beer is enough that my driving a car would be reckless, both of which I gather are unusually low tolerances.
After moving to Salt Lake my tolerance for altitude seems to have improved whole my tolerance for alcohol has further diminished.

 

Not particularly.  

Yes, spending time at higher altitude does increase the body's ability to deal with lower O2 levels.  Or, in the case of athletes, training and lower pressure/O2 levels, enhances performance at sea level.