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Old February 20th 19, 04:32 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Affect of Alcohol (Beer) on Soaring and Soaring Racing

There is a study I saw years ago regarding performance of fighter pilots both drunk and hungover. IIRC this was done in Sweden at some point in the 80s. Couldn't find it with a quick google search, but this one did come up: "Using a repeated measures counterbalanced design, the authors had 10 Navy P3-C Orion pilots fly two carefully designed simulated flights under control (no hangover) and hangover conditions. For the control condition, pilots drank no alcohol within 48 hours before the simulated flight. For the hangover condition, they flew 14 hours after drinking enough ethanol mixed with diet soft drinks to attain a blood alcohol concentration of 100 mg/dl. Pilot performance was worse in the hangover condition on virtually all measures but significantly worse on three of six variance measures and one of six performance measures. The results indicate that caution should be exercised when piloting an aircraft 14 hours or less after ingesting similar quantities of alcohol."