Big Tin vs. B1900
 

Would you rather be rich and dying or poor and living?
Maybe flying the mighty Beech aint so bad...

http://www.faa.gov/library/reports/m...media/0316.pdf

If God wanted man to fly, we'd be born with radiation suits!

If you read their example, the pilot in question incurred a 1-in-320 increase in risk of fatal cancer. That's a 0.3% increase.

But you have to remember that 24% of americans will die of cancer anyway...so you add 0.3% to that and you get a 24.3% chance of fatal cancer.

You can reduce your non-occupational risk (the 24%) by various healthy- living techniques (diet, exercise, avoid chemicals, etc). I take vitamin E when flying to help with the free radicals.

free radicals.

Hey, I heard that! I'm a pilot, I'll take anything that's free! Where do I get mine? ;)

I believe you have to overnight near Capitol Hill to get Free Radicals.

Calculate your own risk here:

http://airlinepilotcentral.com/frame...n_profile.html

so, do they make a SPF 6000?

Where can I get a lead blanket (the one they wrap you in for X-rays)?:D

"Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse." Nick Romano, Knock on Any Door (1947)

You will be fine if you wear some tin foil on your head. Always have an extra sheet or two in the flight bag.