Dectek
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I was always under the assumption that airplane cabins were pressurized to 8000 feet but was told differently.
Back story... Five days before my vacation i was diving with Tanked 2.0 at Dutch Springs and just after entering the water for our second dive I got a sharp pain in my right ear that felt like an ice pick was shoved in there. I pushed on after a few minutes and we continued. I later got a bad earache and had to take percocets to get to sleep that night. It turns out that I got a small tear in the tympanic membrane and was advised not to dive or fly but i would be ok in a week or three. I was told later that some folks call that a ruptured eardrum but I don't think the doc saw it that way. He just said something like a little blood either in or behind the ear drum or that membrame. I am not sure of the wording because I was thinking if I would be able to dive on Vacation or not. Some antibiotics and some vitamin E to but in the ear and we were away.
Our flight took off from Philly and stopped over in Baltimore to pick up more passengers before going to Cancun. I figured If I had bad pain on the short flight I would get off and take a bus home.
BACK TO THE PLANE (Sorry) I was having a conversation before boarding with a flight crew member about the cabin pressure and the possibility of my disembarking at BWI.The Captain overheard us and entered the conversation by informing me that the AIRBUS A320 we were flying in was pressurized to 1000 feet not 8000. I don't know if it was for just the short hop at 12000 feet or also at the cruising alt of 34000 on the long leg too.
Has anyone heard of any other numbers than 5000 to 8000 feet? I did a few searches on cabin pressure but do not find too much.
Back story... Five days before my vacation i was diving with Tanked 2.0 at Dutch Springs and just after entering the water for our second dive I got a sharp pain in my right ear that felt like an ice pick was shoved in there. I pushed on after a few minutes and we continued. I later got a bad earache and had to take percocets to get to sleep that night. It turns out that I got a small tear in the tympanic membrane and was advised not to dive or fly but i would be ok in a week or three. I was told later that some folks call that a ruptured eardrum but I don't think the doc saw it that way. He just said something like a little blood either in or behind the ear drum or that membrame. I am not sure of the wording because I was thinking if I would be able to dive on Vacation or not. Some antibiotics and some vitamin E to but in the ear and we were away.
Our flight took off from Philly and stopped over in Baltimore to pick up more passengers before going to Cancun. I figured If I had bad pain on the short flight I would get off and take a bus home.
BACK TO THE PLANE (Sorry) I was having a conversation before boarding with a flight crew member about the cabin pressure and the possibility of my disembarking at BWI.The Captain overheard us and entered the conversation by informing me that the AIRBUS A320 we were flying in was pressurized to 1000 feet not 8000. I don't know if it was for just the short hop at 12000 feet or also at the cruising alt of 34000 on the long leg too.
Has anyone heard of any other numbers than 5000 to 8000 feet? I did a few searches on cabin pressure but do not find too much.