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by MajorSauce 2846 days ago
I'm genuinely curious,

How do they regulate oxygen levels?

Or are those levels more or less the same as on the ground but it's the pressure that incommodes?

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The pressure changes with altitude, not the gas makeup. So at 35kft/10.6km the air is still 21% oxygen. The gp is right, the engines bleed off some of the fresh air from the compressor stages in the engine, before the combustion stage, and use that to supply the cabin. This is called Bleed Air - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_air