Originally Posted by uptpilot

All three links are dead.

I fought this battle when I worked for the government. I can reliably diagnose what I believe is TCP based toxins in the air. There is one plane type I flew that I could reproduce it every time. One symptom I experienced was throbbing nerve pains throughout my body after an exposure. It took 3 yrs for that to reduce. All other neurological symptoms were also consistent with my experience.

During my crusade I was very disappointed to find out that the EPA cannot help us in any way. While they can regulate air quality standards inside of a building, they have no jurisdiction within an airplane. Only the FAA has jurisdiction over cabin air quality standards. Unfortunately, The FAA has made no effort to parallel the air quality standards of a building.

You can find military documents and documents written by engineers dating back to the 50s citing the toxic danger of bleed air contamination.. While these guys may install HEPA filters, they are not installing our air quality monitoring systems as recommended by engineers. Also, if they did install air quality monitoring systems, I'm sure that they would set the thresholds high so that they would never be triggered into a warning event mode. No exposure to organophosphates is safe but the industry will have you believe that there are acceptable levels. This is the same problem that you find in the nuclear industry. Incidentally we should also be flying around with dosimeters since we get more radiation exposure than a nuclear worker.

There are those of us that may have developed in multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) and now many chemical-based orderizers such as air spray's cause discomfort and similar symptoms to aero toxic syndrome is exposed for continuous amounts of time. I'm personally very sensitive to places that have been smoked in even a single time.

Lastly, I have to be critical of all those pilots that laughed, were apologists for, and belittled any of those who brought this issue up. I'm glad to see that it's finally being addressed.