Cosmic rays
 

Just spotted this on the BBC news website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4131232.stm

Hmmmh, all a load of bollocks according to scroggs :O

More Harm
 

Cosmic radiation does more to the human organism than you can imagine.Couple this up with jetlag and you have everything from chromosomal damage to cataracts to breast cancer and brain tumours.Do a google and see what turns up.
These SOBs we work for know a lot more than they`re telling.
And it ain`t bollocks scroggs!!

Whilst interesting, the scale and design of the study is quite poor - it would be unwise to draw solid conclusions from it :cool:


Pilots are more likely than most to develop skin cancers, but on the grand scale of things, their privileged lifestyle goes some way to protecting them from earlier, than average, death.

Cosmic man

Haha, critical of scale and design of a study that is briefly touched on by the media and then SUCH a sweeping statement in the second part of your posting.

Not that anyone would draw solid conclusions from it… but do elaborate on those privileges so that we can all feel good again…
:D

Cosmic Radiation IS considered to be a serious enough issue to legislate for. There are 2 seperate sections of JAR-OPS 1 that detail exactly what is required of the operator, and the Air Navigation Order was amended a few years ago to take account of monitoring requirements.

Every airline now has (or at least is required to have) a monitoring programme that should highlight high levels of exposure in individuals. Any level of exposure over 6milliSieverts (mSv) per year is considered "high", the average background dose for non-flyers is approximately 2.2mSv per year.

At my company (UK charter airline, crews operating up to 800 flying hours per year), no individual has so far reached the 6mSv figure in 5 years of sampling, although there are some that are above 5mSv.

You tell me, I only fly a cessna ! :O

If you are serios about finding out more, PM me I can point you in the right direction, alternatively talk to an insurance actuary, they've far more expertise than me !