Preparing for a XC : Bathroom Breaks

Don't bother to argue with him, he knows everything about anything, and is a
world expert on the whining backchat.

"RomeoMike" wrote in message
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Mxsmanic wrote:
RomeoMike writes:

Well, you may get thirsty before dehydrating while playing with your joy
stick, but people who work and play in hot climates know that that is
not true.

I was born and raised in a desert. You get thirsty when you get
dehydrated; it is an extremely reliable indicator of dehydration.

Physiologists know that dehydration can precede thirst.

Only under very unusual circumstances of rapid water loss, which are
not likely to ever occur while flying a general aviation aircraft.
Essentially, you have to be vomiting, urinating, experiencing
diarrhea, or perspiring profusely to dehydrate that rapidly. None of
these is very probable in an aviation context.

The military knows it in training troops. Pro sports teams know it.
Serious hikers know it.

None of them are pilot GA aircraft, however, and there is no
comparison. You're no more likely to dehydrate significantly in an
aircraft than in a car.

All plan appropriate water consumption based on planned fluid losses,
not thirst.

Only when TBW losses are expected to be extremely rapid. That does
not apply to general aviation.

You also imply in another post in this thread that the kidneys won't
make urine if one is dehydrated:

They will concentrate as much as they can. If dehydration is extreme,
however, they will go into acute renal failure. Again, however, this
is never likely to occur in an aviation context.

If it burns when you urinate, that's one sign that you are seriously
dehydrated. A simple test is to make sure your bladder fills every
3-5 hours, and check to make sure that your urine is not brightly
colored. If it is lightly colored and you urinate at least with this
frequency, it's unlikely that you are significantly dehydrated.

That's not so either, unless you're going into shock.

It's normal physiology.

Well, it's normal that normal physiology is normal, but you don't know
what that normal is.
I'm not going to address your ignorance further for the same reasons that
others have given up on you. I only responded to suggest to anyone
interested in the topic that they not take those statements of yours that
I quoted as factual. They should go read an authoritative source about a
topic that can be vitally important to some. As for you, who has never
even had a flying lesson let alone piloted a plane, you even have the
hubris to suggest to an ex-fighter pilot how to recover from a stall. LOL