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Cookie wrote:


So...you think that if you are thirsty...you're going to fly so bad as
to kill yourself??

You really think ANY of the recent accidents are attributed to
dehydration?

The spoiler open accident was beacause the pilot took off with spoiler
open.

The out of gas accident was because the pilot took off with not enough
gas

The zoomie accident or whatever it was....was either poor airmanship
or poor judgement or both.

Cookie

(boy you guys are realling teaming up on me now....but am going to
hold my ground on the "personal responsibility thing"...I do notce
that the "name calling" has begun always a sign of not being able to
defend one's position...)

I don't know if dehydration had any part in any of those accidents.
Heck, lack of sleep might have been involved for all I know. However, I
know of at least one very serious glider crash that, for certain, was
the result of a combination of overheating and dehydration. So, yes, if
you are thirsty, you CAN fly so bad as to kill yourself.

The physiology of dehydration is well known and the degradation of
mental functioning with dehydration is well documented. Humans have a
relatively insensitive capability to sense dehydration (a poor "thirst"
sensor) and so one can be very dehydrated, not thinking well, and only
be moderately thirsty.