Thread: Using sunblock on the flight deck?
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Old 11-09-2018, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by UALfoLIFE View Post
I wear sunscreen, but at 30,000 uva/uvb is the least of your worrries. Most of that is blocked by the gold plating in windshield and the aircraft skin. What’s really killing us is the cosmic radiation, and nothing is going to stop that.
Exactly. Had a basal cell ten+ years ago. The doctor said sunscreen was useless, because of all the other radiation exposure.
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