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12-06-2021 | 05:27 PM
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12-06-2021 | 05:57 PM
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From: Sleeping in the black swan’s nest.
Probably for the same reason that the UFO guy who truly believed that spaceships refueled in lenticular coulds never got fired. Or the current Sasquatch guy or the new world order lizard people guy or those guys who actually put money into the ISL law suit thinking they had a case.
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12-06-2021 | 05:58 PM
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In fact, If I were in charge, there's a bunch of used PW 777-200ER's could be gotten very cheap.
12-06-2021 | 09:31 PM
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Has ALPA accomplished a radiation study of any sort? If not, the membership should insist on it. If they have, would someone post a link?
The pilots in the "high-altitude" aviation community are considered "radiation workers" due to the amount of exposure they get. U-2 flights are now flown with dosimeters to allow tracking of the radiation that each pilot receives. Radiation levels are monitored daily and if the forecast is that they will be high due to solar flare activity or whatever, the flight will be cancelled.
Back around 2009, about 80 of us volunteered for a brain MRI study to try to help correlate the damage being done in the form of brain lesions. This was after we had a spate of serious injuries and one near fatality. Was radiation a contributing factor along with the high cabin altitudes we were experiencing? I don't believe they ever concluded it was... but the radiation is definitely there.
Is flying in the FL350 range for 15 hours, including a pole transit, significant WRT the amount of millirems? The answer should be known by now. And if it isn't, someone needs to get on it.
It is not my intent to derail the discussion with a thread drift. We can certainly start a new thread if anyone wants to discuss health effect of long-haul flying.
The pilots in the "high-altitude" aviation community are considered "radiation workers" due to the amount of exposure they get. U-2 flights are now flown with dosimeters to allow tracking of the radiation that each pilot receives. Radiation levels are monitored daily and if the forecast is that they will be high due to solar flare activity or whatever, the flight will be cancelled.
Back around 2009, about 80 of us volunteered for a brain MRI study to try to help correlate the damage being done in the form of brain lesions. This was after we had a spate of serious injuries and one near fatality. Was radiation a contributing factor along with the high cabin altitudes we were experiencing? I don't believe they ever concluded it was... but the radiation is definitely there.
Is flying in the FL350 range for 15 hours, including a pole transit, significant WRT the amount of millirems? The answer should be known by now. And if it isn't, someone needs to get on it.
It is not my intent to derail the discussion with a thread drift. We can certainly start a new thread if anyone wants to discuss health effect of long-haul flying.
- The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements reported that aircrew have the largest average annual effective dose (3.07 mSv) of all US radiation-exposed workers. 1 Other estimates of annual aircrew cosmic radiation exposure range from 0.2 to 5 mSv per year.
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/re...media/0316.pdf
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-of-radiation I’ve read a lot more about foreign unions making noise about it than ALPA. Same goes for fumes.
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