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Many folks who love the OxyArm designed by Walt Atkinson and Rob Apens want
oxygen conservation as well.  Now Aeromedix has done just that by combining the
“pendant” Oximiser with the OxyArm.  The Oximiser pendant is a hockey puck shaped
plastic container which has a collapsible plastic bag.  This is normally connected to a
routine nasal cannula.  At Aeromedix, we combined the OxyArm with an Oximiser
pendant by cutting the pendant’s built in cannula and replacing with the OxyArm.
Testing shows effective oxygen savings in the 50% range.  (The device works by
storing the oxygen being delivered during the exhalation and pause portions of the
respiratory cycle and delivering the stored oxygen during the vacuum created during
inhalation.  Thus, flow rates can reduced by about one half.  We recommend an pulse
oximeter to check oxygen saturation with all oxygen use.)

 Oximiser pendants can be purchased separately if you already have an OxyArm for
$26.95.  With the OxyArm as a combo, it is $125.95.

 Only from Aeromedix.

The following is an open letter from our friends at AircraftOwner…

“Dear Fellow Aircraft Owners & Pilots:

Your action to help stop user fees for General Aviation is needed immediately.

Please contact your U.S. Senators today. This is vitally important to the future of General Aviation. The United States Senate is considering a bill that will impose a $25 per-flight air traffic control user fee that would harm general aviation. This is unacceptable and may well be the beginning of a down hill slide toward more and more user fees. This Senate bill, #S. 1300, is called “Aviation Investment and Modernization Act of 2007.” Here is what I urge you to do as soon as you can:

1. Contact your U.S. Senators TODAY and tell them you strongly reject the terms calling for user fees as contained in Senate bill: S. 1300.

2. Tell your senators that you support the House version, “FAA Reauthorization ACT of 2007,” because is does not contain user fees. The House version of the bill, which they should support, is: H.R. 2881.

The U.S. Senate will be considering this S. 1300 immediately so you need to call, e-mail, mail or fax your Senators now. For assistance refer to these GA web sites:

EAA.org (with sample letters)

AOPA.org Aviation Across America

Contact information for your Senators can be found here: Senate.gov

And, for your Congressperson, at this address: House.gov

The airline industry is strongly supporting user fees which will be harmful against General Aviation. They have mobilized like never before to get these fees imposed on you and me. All of General Aviation needs to work to stop these user fees now.

I urge you to contact your Senators today. Tell them you do not want User Fees on General Aviation.

Sincerely,

Greg Herrick
Publisher -  AircraftOwner 

PS: Also, contact your Members of the U.S. Congress and tell them you support their House bill, H.R. 2881, the “FAA Reauthorization ACT of 2007,” because it does not include user fees for General Aviation.”

With the recent disappearance of Steve Fossett, the importance of Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) came to mind again. ELTs are just not a reliable method for locating a downed pilot or for that matter, are not available for a lost hiker, biker, or skier. Cell phones cannot be counted on either since service is not universal, they are toast if they get wet, and can easily be lost in an accident (in a car accident, my phone was found by accident 50 feet away in the grass). 

PLBs kept in a pocket will notify the neccessary organizations in minutes of who you are and where you are within a one meter circle. They are easy to activate, even for an untrained user, and unless you are dead, help will be on the way quickly and efficiently. No pilot should be in an airplane without a PLB plus they can use it whenever they are in the back country.

The cost of the PLB is the only cost. There is no monthly subscription or other service charge. You just register once a year and then know you can be found in an emergency.

You owe it to yourself, your passengers, and your love ones on the ground.

Read my article on 406 MHz PLBs at Aeromedix.com

Aeromedix.com is proud to announce our new partnership with Patty Wagstaff, three-time U.S. National Aerobatic Champion and six-time member of the U.S. Aerobatic Team. Through our mutual love of aviation and safety Patty and Aeromedix.com are partnering to make people more aware of cockpit safety through the use of supplemental oxygen systems, pulse oximetry and 406 MHz PLBs…all of which Patty flies with whenever she leaves the ground.