Relieving in flight

whats your experience with cathaters.

The external catheters use an adhesive. Selective manscaping pays off at the end of the day.

Gees, I dont know if I like that "adhesive" idea.

On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 7:29:42 PM UTC-8, wrote:
Gees, I dont know if I like that "adhesive" idea.

I wouldn't want to use anything but an external catheter plumbed to the outside world, preferably in a system that the urine does not contact the glider. Seems best to install a conduit to push a tube attached to the catheter through, extending it beyond the laminar flow.
Using a "hand-held device" while driving a car is considered bad. It should be at least as bad while flying?
The adhesive is far less sticky than a "band aid".
Jim

Several options available in addition to the adhesive condom catheters.

1. Inflatable condom catheters. Reusable and non-adhesive.

2. Zip lock bags with adsorbant pads. These work well if you are not needing to urinate on all flights, but want something in case you need one.

Non adhesive conveens with a little velcro tie wrap. Dont laugh - Ive been using that for over 30 years with no inflight mishaps - and I re-use the conveens many times. Rinse, hang to dry, dust inside and out with a very small amount of talc and roll up over a tube sized to give just a little stretch. A box of 30 lasts about a decade (I'm on my third). Too much information??

On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 4:01:31 AM UTC, JS wrote:
Seems best to install a conduit to push a tube attached to the catheter through, extending it beyond the laminar flow.

How far out do you need to go for the urine to miss the glider?

Transfix external catheters, with an external tube (from the BGA website for the Brits) work well for me.

Paul

Fidel told me that the reason he wears rubber gloves during annuals is
because the gliders with an external relief tube are "Nasty". Translate
that to corrosion of lower rudder hinge, tail wheel axle and bearings,
main landing gear, etc.

On 12/21/2017 2:32 AM, Paul Ruskin wrote:
On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 4:01:31 AM UTC, JS wrote:
Seems best to install a conduit to push a tube attached to the catheter through, extending it beyond the laminar flow.

How far out do you need to go for the urine to miss the glider?

Transfix external catheters, with an external tube (from the BGA website for the Brits) work well for me.

Paul

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On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 7:29:42 PM UTC-8, wrote:
Gees, I dont know if I like that "adhesive" idea.

Hell I duct tape mine on. It is no fun to have a catheter come off at 17,500 two hours into 900 km flight, I know.

On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 8:51:01 AM UTC-8, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 7:29:42 PM UTC-8, wrote:
Gees, I dont know if I like that "adhesive" idea.

Hell I duct tape mine on. It is no fun to have a catheter come off at 17,500 two hours into 900 km flight, I know.

At Montague we put your phone number on the ziplock bag and drop on Steven Segals' ranch.

R

After one contest where i landed wet every day but the last trying various solutions, i finally iterated to an overboard tube with condom catheter. I buy them in boxes of 100 or so from Amazon. i'll wipe the belly. having a ziploc bag of pee in the cockpit with me is too stressful. Having containers of pee in the cockpit just seems to me like a bomb waiting to go off.