On Dec 17, 5:02*am, Raphael Warshaw wrote:
On Dec 16, 11:06*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

Hi Mike,

There are some compounds out there in DARPA-land that do measurably
inhance human performance in areas not covered by Viagra, at least in
the short term. *It's the long term you have to worry about when
taking them though. *Of course for us old geezers that's less of a
problem than it would be for the kiddies. *I suspect that most of
these new goodies are undetectable (or even looked for) in the current
drug-testing regimes.

FWIW,

Ray Warshaw
1LK

yes, for soaring flights lasting over 4 hours, call your Dr.
immediately and seek the nearest LZ.

Brad