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Old 31st Jul 2012, 21:23
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Genghis the Engineer
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Absolutely not, no.

Partly because of the issue of inability to clear the eustachian tubes.

To a greater extent however because of what I know a cold (of any description) does to my ability to concentrate on difficult tasks. For the same reasons, I try when I have a cold to avoid the hour drive to the office/airfield and instead will try and work from home (also to avoid giving it to anybody else, particularly if they might be flying). A cold degrades my driving and flying.

My (non-flying) hobby is martial arts; an hour in the dojo when I have a cold illustrates painfully well what it does to my ability to perform under stress; there however I can just sit out, in the air it might kill me. Worse, it might kill somebody else.

Anybody who works for me and turns up with a cold gets sent home. I don't want it, nobody else who flies wants it.

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