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Old 29th Jul 2001, 02:48
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Harry999
 
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Interesting thought TR3.
Being a rather bored and sad individual I have done a few back of the envelope calculations to see how much younger a pilot might be at the end of his career compared to somebody with a stationary desk job.

I reckon that a pilot doesn't even save himself a second. Perhaps you would like to check the maths.

Based on a pilot of a 747 with a cruise speed of 600mph = 270m/s who spends perhaps 15 hrs per week in the air and does so for perhaps 30 years, i.e. 84 x 10^6 seconds. Now I'm not a pilot (soon to be rectified fingers crossed) so don't quote me on the above stats.

The pilots time is given by lorentz transormation:

t'= t/root(1-sq(v/c))

where t' is time experienced by pilot and t is that experienced by our office clerk if you will.

t'=84 x 10^6 / root(1-sq(270/3x10^8))

And by my reckoning the difference in time is a mere 0.000034 seconds. So nothing to get too excited about eh?
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