S U/C I think you are the closest. To the best of my recolection it's not actually pressure changes but time spent at different pressures.

I remember seeing a doco on the ABC some years ago about the majority of airline pilot offspring being female due to the extented periods spent at high altitude. This was described as being results of an actual study on the bodies reaction to prolonged effects of low pressure. This was also raised during Human Performance and biology issues at uni. Although divers were never mentioned I guess it would make sence that high pressure would produce the opposite effect and they would have boys.

Conclusion: the only thing more expensive and time consuming than flying training and a career in aviation is children .... so choose your poison.

Thank you VneII,

That would also make sense with Capt Snooze. I too must have seen the doc, though to long ago too remember exact details.

SU/C:)

:cool:
I spent the early years of my working life in the nz navy as a greenie(weopons electrical branch)working around radar a lot ,
most of my flying has been in png using HF all day.................................all girls !!!!!!!!

Could be the added solar/cosmic radiation that occurs in the flight levels (more so during sun spot activity) damaging the y chromazone (sic). good question for Doctor Karl on JJJ tomorrow.

MAYBE it's just nature's subtle way of adjusting the present gender imbalance amongst pilots? ;) :D :p

Have 3 girls myself. On the other hand, my dad (ex-RCAF Argus driver; AC for 35 years) had 2 boys. Swore he didn't have a girl in him!:D

The pressure thing is an interesting thought. However...my brother-in-law is a professional diver...with 7 girls!!!:eek:

ever since i had my tubes chopped i haven't been able to have any kids boys or girls, no matter how often or hard i try.:cool:

my father was an airline pilot, two girls and a boy.
my uncle was an airline pilot, two boys.
my cousin is an airline pilot, a girl and a boy.
my other cousin was an airline pilot, a girl and a boy.

me, zip. ;)

Just to be on the safe side. We should start a gene sharing co-op between pilots and divers.

maybe it was the milkman or the postie???????

I Fly: God help the world if flyers and divers start procreating!!

ZK: Nah, neither one. My brother-in-law is just way too persistent. Can't figure out why though. His wife is, how would you say it politely...UGLY. HUGE. etc, etc... No postman or milkman would go near her. Pack 230 lbs onto a 5 foot nothing frame, then whack it in the face with a cast-iron frying pan and you've got a pretty version of my sister-in-law. Hey, come to think of it, maybe it was a Pom!:D

I guess I must be one of the "odd" one's out...??

I have worked as a tech for 12 years on radar systems and have also been flying during that time.


2 boys

(admittedly they occassionally glow in the dark, but isn't that s'pose to be normal?)

:p :p :D :D

You will probably all jump on me Dads but...

Thank you for producing more of the fairer sex...:D

Puts more fish out there in the sea...:)

Now ya just gotta worry about all those bloody pilots chasen em...:p

I am so thankful for my son...