So we all got our chamber rides today. For those of you not in the know, the "chamber" is a little room they sit you down in, with a bunch of oxygen regulators. They depressurize it up to 35,000 feet, then bring you back down to 25,000 feet. Then they tell you to take off your mask and do really simple things like writing your name and simple math problems. Within a minute or 2 everyone starts feeling different symptoms of hypoxia, and when you feel you could no longer fly an aircraft (i.e. you're getting really loopy), then you put your mask back on and "come to your senses". It's to show you what it feels like in case it ever happens to you, you can recognize the symptoms and go on oxygen.

After lunch we had to practice what to do if we had to eject or emergency ground egress in the cockpit trainers they had. After that, we all got to sit in the chair where they spin you around a bunch with your head in different positions then stop you real quick and everyone laughs at you for falling on your face. Good times!! Seriously though, it's to demonstrate the symptoms of spatial disorientation.

One more Powerpoint lecture on noise and vibrations, and we were out of there at little after 1600. Not a bad day!