The oxygen requirements only come into play when you fly depressurized.
That is true for the 12,500, 14,000, and 15,000 feet cabin pressure numbers I gave, yes.
However, the oxygen requirement associated with the 35,000 foot number I gave applies to both pressurized and unpressurized flight. If your aircraft is at or above 35,000 feet pressure altitude, at least one of the pilots must be on oxygen, or must have a quick-donning mask available at all times.
I had a problem with my boss's computer yesterday where Windows decided it didn't need to load the drivers for one of the two built in USB 3.0 controllers. On boot, only one of the two controllers would work, either the one for the front ports, or the one for the rear ports, completely randomly. It would not load the driver for the other controller until I disabled and reenabled it in the hardware manager.
BIOS recognized a keyboard or mouse in any of the 2.0 or 3.0 ports at POST, but if Windows failed to load the rear 3.0 driver at boot time, it dropped the keyboard and mouse.
Workaround was to swap them to the 2.0 ports. Final solution was upgrading to Linux.
and the group I was hiking with started feeling it a little bit around 9000-10,000 ft.
Hiking. Physical activity. You'll feel it a lot sooner than if you're just sitting in your seat, bored out of your skull.
Legally, the FAA doesn't require passengers to be on oxygen until cabin altitude is above 15,000 feet. Most aircraft are pressurized to the equivalent of 5000-7000 feet pressure altitude.
just assume they were able to still oxygenate the cabin even if they couldn't go as high
Aircraft are typically pressurized to the equivalent of about 5000-7000 feet altitude.
They do not oxygenate the cabin. The oxygen supplies on board are usually in the form of chemical generators, sometimes known as "oxygen candles", and can only provide about 15 minutes supply. That should be plenty of time to descend below 10,000 feet, where everyone can come off oxygen. They don't "burn" those chemical generators except in actual emergencies.
Pilots and crew have a sufficient supply of bottled oxygen. Pilots and crew are required to go on oxygen if they spend more than 30 minutes above 12,500 feet cabin pressure, or any time over 14,000 feet. Passengers are required to be on supplemental oxygen above 15,000 feet cabin pressure.
Above 35,000 feet flight altitude, at least one pilot must either be on oxygen, or have a mask that can be donned in less than 5 seconds.
I said it wasn't normal.
It may not be typical, but it is not abnormal. Especially if we focus on the 45 minutes of vegetating and not specifically the lying on the floor.
He's already in jail, so zero.
Agreed. Unfortunately, it's all we have.
This particular decision is appealable, if this guy is eventually convicted. And the appeals will be years in the future.
These hearings were specifically for determining whether the information the defendant is requesting is exculpatory, or if the requests are specious.and irrelevant. If the judge had ruled the opposite way, the government would have to decide whether to declassify the information, or drop some or all of the charges.
It is very likely that if they chose to declassify and publish the information, they would be able to prosecute many additional charges. They have to balance the value of charging every crime committed against the cost of revealing operational information.
It depends on what secrets are being kept. Here, I would guess that the accused is asking for information relating to secret service deployments, surveillance, and other information on how he was discovered. That information would be useful to future assassins, but doesn't serve to mitigate his actions or exonerate him.
Just because the accused asks a question with a classified answer does not mean the accused should go free.
About the only requirement is that it is legible. Your "distinctive" handwriting could become part of your brand.