jcarlyle wrote:

But if one
doesn't "have to go" then there shouldn't be any danger, correct? I've
had 5 hour flights where I drank as described, landed, disassembled the
glider and put it away, driven an hour to get home, had dinner, and
only then did I feel the "urge". Just lucky? Or pushing it?


I use the same guidance I give the kids before car trips, etc., when
they always complain, "But, I don't have to," and that I've used in
forty years of all kinds of flying:

I say, "Go when you CAN, not when you have to."

Safety, schedules, and health are all better maintained that way. Why
push it, and why build habit patterns that will make it tougher to
adjust when your body does begin to show the common problems of aging?


Jack