Viagra and the Mile High Club

This might come under the heading of news you didn't want to hear:

Aviation physicians recommend that a pilot refrain from
operating an aircraft for six hours after taking Viagra. This is
especially true if he intends to fly at night. Of course, this also
means that a pilot should definitely not use Viagra to enhance his
performance while joining the "mile high club," in which membership
is achieved by sexual activity a mile above the earth. The
combination of a sexual exertion at a 5,000 foot altitude at night
could prove a deadly combination for a pilot and his loved one.

Courtesy of the Aero-News Propwash newsletter, which notes that the
risks are especially high if the pilot is over 65.
all the best -- Dan Ford
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You weren't planning anything, where you Dan? ;-))

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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This might come under the heading of news you didn't want to hear:

Aviation physicians recommend that a pilot refrain from
operating an aircraft for six hours after taking Viagra. This is
especially true if he intends to fly at night. Of course, this also
means that a pilot should definitely not use Viagra to enhance his
performance while joining the "mile high club," in which membership
is achieved by sexual activity a mile above the earth. The
combination of a sexual exertion at a 5,000 foot altitude at night
could prove a deadly combination for a pilot and his loved one.


He might also get an appendage caught in the control yoke or throttle
quadrant. Big-time BUMMER!

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message news:frHsc.5

He might also get an appendage caught in the control yoke or throttle
quadrant. Big-time BUMMER!


Now, there's one for the "Optimists" club. :-)

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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This might come under the heading of news you didn't want to hear:

Aviation physicians recommend that a pilot refrain from
operating an aircraft for six hours after taking Viagra. This is
especially true if he intends to fly at night. Of course, this also
means that a pilot should definitely not use Viagra to enhance his
performance while joining the "mile high club," in which membership
is achieved by sexual activity a mile above the earth. The
combination of a sexual exertion at a 5,000 foot altitude at night
could prove a deadly combination for a pilot and his loved one.

Courtesy of the Aero-News Propwash newsletter, which notes that the
risks are especially high if the pilot is over 65.

Aero-News is wrong about the reason pilots are not supposed to take Viagra
at night. Despite early rumors when the product was first introduced, it has
not been shown to increase anyone's risk of a heart attack. There is nothing
about sexual exertion at night that is any different than sexual exertion
during the day.

Viagra can cause a blue color shift in your vision. Ordinarily not dangerous
or even particularly annoying, but tests showed some pilots had difficulty
distinguishing runway lights from taxiway lights.

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message news:frHsc.5

He might also get an appendage caught in the control yoke or throttle
quadrant. Big-time BUMMER!


Now, there's one for the "Optimists" club. :-)

Imagine the guy trying to explain an accident to the NTSB investigator...a
woman, no less.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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Viagra can cause a blue color shift in your vision. Ordinarily not
dangerous
or even particularly annoying, but tests showed some pilots had difficulty
distinguishing runway lights from taxiway lights.


I'll bet!!!

Old news (sorry to disappoint you)...the issue of blue/white lights
on the runway was published a couple (or more?) years ago in a number
of the flying rags. Can't remember where I read about it first.

*sigh*

"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...
"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Viagra can cause a blue color shift in your vision. Ordinarily not dangerous
or even particularly annoying, but tests showed some pilots had difficulty
distinguishing runway lights from taxiway lights.

Can you imagine the flyer for volunteers for that study. "Must be able
to fly with Stiffy"...

-Robert

Imagine what the NTSB report would say wonder if they would make the report
public.


"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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"John Gaquin" wrote in message
...

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message news:frHsc.5

He might also get an appendage caught in the control yoke or throttle
quadrant. Big-time BUMMER!


Now, there's one for the "Optimists" club. :-)

Imagine the guy trying to explain an accident to the NTSB investigator...a
woman, no less.