Re: Greetings from Upper Redneckia!

On 15/1/07 10:42, "kd***ton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:31:26 GMT, Stuart Rogers
> <stuart.rogers.clara.co.uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Stuart, just back from a week's flying.
> 
> Don't you ever get disoriented or loopy or whatever the expression is,
> from so much flying?

Not really. Scared sometimes, and occasionally queasy.  Tuesday's
flight was a case in point - after flying for twenty five minutes
at just 100 feet above a very rough sea with 50 knot crosswinds
was very, very bumpy.  And the 60-degree banked orbits is more
like a rollercoaster - except that instead of pulling 2g every
now and again, we do it steadily for a couple of minutes.

> And what about radiation?  My 1/2 sister is a
> flight attendant, and they are only allowed to fly two weeks per
> month.

Radiation's only really a problem for long duration, high altitude
flights.  We rarely get above 25,000 feet for more than an hour
in any one flight (because we don't need to, not because we can't)
so our exposure is limited.  Your sister is probably spending far
more time at risk than I am.

Stuart, who shall be doing some of his flying around Nouakchott
  later this year.