Performance Enhancing Drugs for Glider Pilots
On Dec 16, 8:06*pm, Mike the Strike wrote:
While browsing all the various international racing rules to get ideas
for our upcoming soaring camp, I came across the FAI's 39-page
treatise on performance enhancing drugs, including the testing
criteria.
As an old geezer who doesn't fly cross-country nearly as fast as I
could (some call me Captain Slow), I was captivated by the idea that
there are drugs that can enhance the performance of a glider pilot.
Obviously a sufficiently severe problem that needs 39 pages of rule-
making!
What are they and where can I get them?
Obviously not alcohol - ruins your reaction time and you fly like
cr@p, but you don't know it.
Not marijuana either - also ruins your reaction time - except you know
it, but don't care.
Perhaps chewing coca leaves to improve oxygen uptake at high
altitudes? (Oxygen is cheaper)
I can't really think of any - so what is this severe problem that
needs the 39 pages of rules?
Mike
sounds like a job for Governor Ventura!
Brad
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