On Aug 26, 7:33*pm, Mike I Green wrote:
On 8/26/2011 6:01 PM, drbdanieli wrote:





On Aug 26, 10:34 am, JJ *wrote:
* hazards of dehydration. And I don't know if

JJ's ending example above is of Paul Schweizer's accident in a Texas-based
1-26 'Nationals,'

No, this one was at our annual Air Sailing Sports Contest. I was the
CD that year and I caught the pilot climbing in his 1-26 without a
parachute. I told him he would have to wear a chute in a sanctioned
contest and he reluctantly went and got one. After the accident he was
alone in the desert with badly broken legs and ankles and started
going into shock. He pooped the parachute I made him wear and wrapped
it around himself. That might have saved his life, because it was
quite some time before he was found by a car that was driving on a
seldom used dirt road in the desert (White Rock Road). We launched Air
Sailing Air (tow plane) about 6:PM, with no results, but Vern was
already in the hospital at that time.
Drink will help you Think,
JJ

Hey JJ,

Do you remember were the info is on the research that Chuck Fischer
did on dehydration? *Seems like *a lot of contest pilots gave blood
for his project and if I remember correctly, everyone was way more
dehydrated than they thought they were. *Also, that wrecked Mini-
Nimbus I picked up years ago came from an East Coast pilot who was
severly dehydrated. *Nearly killed him and it would be easy to also
pass this off as pilot error has he not survived and admitted to
flying with the vents closed during the contest.

Barry

Wouldn't one consider dehydration pilot error?

Barry - what has dehydration got to do with flying with the vents closed?

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Mike,

Of course not drinking enough fluids is an error on the pilots part.
My point was to reinforce the significance of dehydration in ones
ablity to fly safely. If you look at the report in the Soaring
archives (August 1980 page 44) you can see the the pilot was unable to
reach his water bottle, doesn't remember anything after circling over
the field he crashed in, and witness' state that the pilot looked like
he quit flying the plane.

Now I guess that sitting in a sauna (vents closed) would cause you to
perspire and dehydrate more rapidly than if you had some fresh air
cooling you down a bit.

I believe you too were there during that contest Chuck was doing the
research on dehydration. Do you have any idea where that info can be
found?

Barry