Pilot Disorders

[TexasFlyer]

I read something interesting. It said pilots develop long term health disorders due to constantly breathing re-circulated air and also from working in a pressurized cockpit. Is this true? How is this any different from the poor guy in a cube at a computer in Colorado working in an office building that re-circulated their air?

 

[project7]

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How is this any different from the poor guy in a cube at a computer in Colorado working in an office building that re-circulated their air?

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The guy in the cubicle isn't being exposed to higher doses of radiation.

 

[jtrain609]

Maybe my knowledge of pressurized aircraft systems is lacking, but I don't believe the air is simply recirulated. Fresh air from outside the aircraft is brought in, pressurized and then used in the aircraft eh?

 

[flyguy]

Some of it is recycled.

 

[jtrain609]

Some of it? That still means that if only a porition goes out at a time, all of the air will end up outside the aircraft and new air will come in.

 

[derg]

Here ya go, Johnny!

 

[jtrain609]

I could do that, or I could stop being lazy and just pull out of my Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge

 

[derg]

But to answer your question, it's fresh + recirc air.

 

[MQAAord]

I think the 'disorders' most troubling pilots these days are:

Depression
Sleep disorders
Post traumatic stress disorders (resulting from the trauma of 9/11 and/or being furloughed)