Originally Posted by
AgentSmith
..and let me add to this.
The cowling is a composite, and fire inside the engine compartment WILL make a cacophony of wonderful carcinogens and toxic compounds that will cause permanent damage with a single breath and it will send it directly to you through the environmental system.
Please take this seriously!!!
Know your mask, practice deploying it until you do it in your sleep.
Make sure it ALWAYS works.
Your employer will not have to deal with life time consequences and/or horrible death. You will.
LOL, let me tell you about the time I had a fire in the cockpit with smoke and fumes, the med crew (mainly the murse) argued with me about putting on the masks. My response, "Ok dumbass, but before you pass out from the fumes, please make sure to put a mask on the patient". He might not have heard me though, I had my mask on
True story. I got reprimanded by the company for telling the med crew to put an O2 mask on during a cockpit fire in a PC-12. I no longer work for the company.