On Dec 20, 4:04 pm, "HL Falbaum" wrote:
Would suggest that being PIC and the potential effects of Scopolamine/
Hyocyamine are not compatible. Effects are subtle and variable from time to
time as well as from individual to individual.

Test before use - i.e., take a few times when you're *not* flying or
driving to see if it has any effect. Scopolamine only produces
tiredness in less than 20% of subjects (do a pubmed search). If it
*does* make you tired, there are alternatives that are less effective
for reducing sickness but also have a lower rate of inducing
tiredness. I can't recall the exact drugs off the top of my head but
again a pubmed or Cochrane search should find the answer.

Also agree with Ian - being perhaps a little tired (and who hasn't
flown a bit tired, especially towards the end of a long flight?) is
safer than vomiting all over the controls! The obvious rejoinder is
not to fly at all, but that may not be acceptable to the person
concerned.

BTW Scopolamine is also widely used by astronauts, many of whom (think
it's something like half) suffer from space sickness. You don't know
if you're susceptible until you're in zero G for some time, so it's
impossible to know if an individual is going to suffer before flight.
Both NASA and the Russians seem happy for their people to be fully
dosed up on scopolamine during missions!


Dan