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A female avionics LAME I knew years ago alerted me to this phenomena. She understood that it was exposure to radar, both terminal and Wx that seemed to affect the Y sperm.
Most of the pilots I know have female children. Mine are both boys but were both born before I took up flying.
Most of the pilots I know have female children. Mine are both boys but were both born before I took up flying.
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Has no-one done any scientific research into this yet?
There seems to be so much anecdote, but I've never seen any paper written on this issue (not that I've been paying much attention).
If anyone has seen a study on this, please give me the author and the title.
There seems to be so much anecdote, but I've never seen any paper written on this issue (not that I've been paying much attention).
If anyone has seen a study on this, please give me the author and the title.
Originally Posted by Capt Claret
A female avionics LAME I knew years ago alerted me to this phenomena. She understood that it was exposure to radar, both terminal and Wx that seemed to affect the Y sperm.
Most of the pilots I know have female children. Mine are both boys but were both born before I took up flying.
Most of the pilots I know have female children. Mine are both boys but were both born before I took up flying.
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Non normal try having a look at medline http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/g...?itool=toolbar
If you have no luck, consider designing a study yourself. I'd be available for flying and fathering children. (But I would like weekends off to concentrate on my hobbies!)
If you have no luck, consider designing a study yourself. I'd be available for flying and fathering children. (But I would like weekends off to concentrate on my hobbies!)
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Originally Posted by got caught
Non normal try having a look at medline http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/g...?itool=toolbar
If you have no luck, consider designing a study yourself. I'd be available for flying and fathering children. (But I would like weekends off to concentrate on my hobbies!)
If you have no luck, consider designing a study yourself. I'd be available for flying and fathering children. (But I would like weekends off to concentrate on my hobbies!)
Looked on Medline and all sorts of database but couldn't find anything! Either I'm not looking properly or there has been no serious study on it. (Thanks for the link though.)
I wouldn't mind designing a study myself, if I really can't find anything after doing quite a bit of digging around, in fact. It sounds quite interesting - I am not becoming a study subject myself though!
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Yeh, I had a quick delve around, but couldn't find much. I would have thought there must be some epidemiological studies out there. I guess if you were to design a study, you'd have to be quite strict about your research question, particularly, what you define as "pilot."
If I come across anything I'll post a link.
If I come across anything I'll post a link.
