The UND Aerospace Foundation offers two short courses on physiology training. MTV reps, Hartman and Pressler, participated in the Corporate Recurrent Training , a one-day refresher course for the flyer who has previously been trained in an altitude chamber. This course is intended to refresh knowledge previously gained, this course covers the hazards of high altitude flight such as the human response to the lack of oxygen and changing barometric pressure. As in the Corporate Initial Training described below, the student will experience these stresses in hypoxia demonstrations and a rapid decompression flight. The Corporate Initial Training is a two-day course for flight crews without previous altitude chamber training.
Flight crews learn the human body s reactions to the stresses of high altitude flight.
Particular attention will be paid to such hazards as lack of oxygen, the effects of trapped gasses, decompression sickness, and the effects of loss of cabin pressurization. They then experience these stresses under controlled conditions by participating in altitude chamber hypoxia demonstrations at 25,000 and 18,000 feet and a rapid decompression from 8,000 feet to FL220. Training in such topics as fatigue, stress, and orientation in both the spatial and visual environments rounds out the course. The Altitude Chamber Training is also incorporated into UND s aviation undergraduate degree curriculum, making UND the only collegiate program able to offer this training to its aviation graduates. Its staff offers over 62 years of experience in physiology training and includes a senior aviation medical examiner with military aviation experience.