Former Methods Often Caused Decompression And Barotrauma Sickness

The Naval Aviation Training Systems and Ranges program office (PMA-205) Normobaric Hypoxia Trainer (NHT) team recently designed, delivered, installed, and began support of the NHT at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, the first trainer of its kind eliminating common hypoxia training injuries. The legacy Low Pressure Chamber trainer used in hypoxia training for pilots and aircrew often caused decompression and barotrauma sickness, the leading causal factors for training injuries in the Naval Aviation Survival Training Program (NASTP). The NHT team, made up of an expert group of research engineers and scientists, looking to mitigate those injuries, developed the NHT concept.