Thursday, February 02, 2006
AAD trouble in Thailand.
Yesterday, we had a snafu.
World team split into two groups for practice dives. One pass at 21000 feet - then another twenty minutes later. Here comes a chain of events.
Oxygen: one player has an oxygen hose with connection trouble. Passes out on Jump run.
Jump Run: Aborts. Aircraft plans for descent. This would suck, by the way - an hour and a half in the belly of a Hercules for no jump.
Doors close.
Crew - I believe unprompted - hear "Oxygen" and "Trouble" in the same sentence, and pressurise the plane. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Later on the descent, they manually depressurise the plane. Quickly.
Four Vigil equipped rigs do their job, and fire the reserves. In the plane.
/THIRTY/ rigs are equipped with Cypres (original) units, and go nuts. Shut down. Won't turn on. "Trip to the factory" says the manual.
Airtec are shipping a Technician and a bunch of Cyprii to Thailand as I speak. Tonight, it's all riggers on deck as we change a whole bunch of Cypres units over - and, presumably, the Vigils (Vigil will apparently not pre-ship cutters).
No AAD - no jump on world team.
Hmm.
Glad I'm not in Public Relations!
L.
World team split into two groups for practice dives. One pass at 21000 feet - then another twenty minutes later. Here comes a chain of events.
Oxygen: one player has an oxygen hose with connection trouble. Passes out on Jump run.
Jump Run: Aborts. Aircraft plans for descent. This would suck, by the way - an hour and a half in the belly of a Hercules for no jump.
Doors close.
Crew - I believe unprompted - hear "Oxygen" and "Trouble" in the same sentence, and pressurise the plane. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Later on the descent, they manually depressurise the plane. Quickly.
Four Vigil equipped rigs do their job, and fire the reserves. In the plane.
/THIRTY/ rigs are equipped with Cypres (original) units, and go nuts. Shut down. Won't turn on. "Trip to the factory" says the manual.
Airtec are shipping a Technician and a bunch of Cyprii to Thailand as I speak. Tonight, it's all riggers on deck as we change a whole bunch of Cypres units over - and, presumably, the Vigils (Vigil will apparently not pre-ship cutters).
No AAD - no jump on world team.
Hmm.
Glad I'm not in Public Relations!
L.
# posted by L. @ 4:26 PM 
