Does flying screw your body up?

future777captain said:
These are some interesting replies. I was worried about how I would handle it if I ever get hired after training. I used to teach English in Korea and the non-stop toronto-seoul flight was easy for me to go through, because I love planes, but it was adjusting to the time differences and all that that took me a week or so each time.
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Numerous sources that I've read say it takes a normal healthy body a day to adjust for each hour changed from the circadian rhythm.

Perhaps Dr. Forred knows some other facts about that topic.
 
Wasn't there a study with UPS/FedEx pilots and they concluded that flying @ night is bad for your body?
 
a quick google came up with this..quote from a guy on apc

"No I didn't, but I saw the NASA sleep study done on FedEx pilots in the 80's.
They wired up some of our guys (which included Anal probes) and monitored guys for a week of our Domestic night hub turns (which are real killers).

After the company got the data, they squelched the results because it said what we have been saying for years. Many of our schedules are so onerous that our Pilots are flying very fatigued and too often don't realize it.
It took one of our Pilots sueing FedEx under the Freedom of Information Act to get the results................

The company did it's own internal safety audit about 4 years ago. They hired a professional outfit to come in and do the audit to get a non biased view.(AKA the Ender's report)
Just like the NASA sleep study, the company obviously didn't like what it said because they squelched the results of that audit too. They keep telling us there is no safety problem.

I guess if you keep repeating that enough it must be true.................
There is no safety problem....there is no safety problem...there is no safety problem:"
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Hahaha...I eat 3-4 oranges a day, and haven't been sick in over a year!

Let's hope breathing doesn't cause cancer! :D
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Not bad, however I eat almost no fruits or vegetables (maybe once a week on fruit). I haven't gotten sick since I came to college in August of 2006. :D:nana2:
Haven't gained or lost any weight so I'm in pretty good shape too.
 
When I used to fly a 172 a lot my elbow would hurt after a flight because I kept setting it down on the old hard armrest....


does this count?
 
Stinger said:
Not bad, however I eat almost no fruits or vegetables (maybe once a week on fruit). I haven't gotten sick since I came to college in August of 2006. :D:nana2:
Haven't gained or lost any weight so I'm in pretty good shape too.
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For me, I'll feel the sick coming on, usually headache, nausea and fatigue.

But that's it, after maybe a day or less of the initial feelings of getting sick, I always feel better in a short time. It never get to it's full stages.

But, I always get a cold sore, usually in my nose, which to me signals I'm past the worst.

Or to relate it to aviation. I'm like a MD-11. In that I get a signal from the computer after the fact telling me that this and this happened, but it's been fixed already!

But, here just a friendly heads up!

:D


I've also started drink alot more OJ too. Intially I didn't know about vitamin C's healing effects. Oranges just happen to be a favorite fruit of mine.

The only side effect of eating and drinking so much OJ and oranges is that I'm always having to go.

Sometimes I wanna sing that jingle:

"And I don't have to go right now!."

You know "I don't have a growing problem, I have going problem!"

:laff:
 
Doug Taylor said:
How old are ya, Stinger? :)
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I just happen to be 20 so I stay pretty active.

Maximillian_Jenius said:
For me, I'll feel the sick coming on, usually headache, nausea and fatigue.

But that's it, after maybe a day or less of the initial feelings of getting sick, I always feel better in a short time. It never get to it's full stages.

But, I always get a cold sore, usually in my nose, which to me signals I'm past the worst.

Or to relate it to aviation. I'm like a MD-11. In that I get a signal from the computer after the fact telling me that this and this happened, but it's been fixed already!

But, here just a friendly heads up!
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The signal I get when I start to get sick is a get a cold sore in my left nostril for some reason. I have no idea how it's connected with being sick, though.
 
A lot of the guys I fly with attempt to stay on home time as much as possible. The rest are of the sleep when you're tired, eat when you're hungry theory. I've tried both and I will say that the latter works best for me. The rest of the time I try to plan my rest around the next departure.
 
I'm also a sleep when I'd sleep at home kinda guy. The later my shows on a trip, the better, as I live in mountain time, work in eastern time and could have trips spanning all three time zones in a given trip. Trying to stick with getting up at 8:00 a.m. mountain time seems to work the best for me.
 
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