Big Tin vs. B1900
03-05-2008 | 07:53 AM
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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
Maybe flying the mighty Beech aint so bad...
http://www.faa.gov/library/reports/m...media/0316.pdf
03-05-2008 | 08:17 AM
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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.
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.
03-05-2008 | 08:33 AM
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