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DEHYDRATION STUPIDITY (was SAFETY ALERT)
On Aug 26, 6:01*pm, drbdanieli wrote:
On Aug 26, 10:34*am, JJ Sinclair wrote: *hazards of dehydration. And I don't know if JJ's ending example above is of Paul Schweizer's accident in a Texas-based 1-26 'Nationals,' No, this one was at our annual Air Sailing Sports Contest. I was the CD that year and I caught the pilot climbing in his 1-26 without a parachute. I told him he would have to wear a chute in a sanctioned contest and he reluctantly went and got one. After the accident he was alone in the desert with badly broken legs and ankles and started going into shock. He pooped the parachute I made him wear and wrapped it around himself. That might have saved his life, because it was quite some time before he was found by a car that was driving on a seldom used dirt road in the desert (White Rock Road). We launched Air Sailing Air (tow plane) about 6:PM, with no results, but Vern was already in the hospital at that time. Drink will help you Think, JJ Hey JJ, Do you remember were the info is on the research that Chuck Fischer did on dehydration? *Seems like *a lot of contest pilots gave blood for his project and if I remember correctly, everyone was way more dehydrated than they thought they were. *Also, that wrecked Mini- Nimbus I picked up years ago came from an East Coast pilot who was severly dehydrated. *Nearly killed him and it would be easy to also pass this off as pilot error has he not survived and admitted to flying with the vents closed during the contest. Barry- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I remember the study that Chuck Fisher did, but have no idea where it could be found. Dr. Walt Cannon has given several presentations that suggest that the pull-up after a long hot romp in the desert is enough to shut down a dehydrated mind. That might explain the finish line accident at Uvalde in '86 where the pilot made a good finish at 20 feet with plenty of speed, then pulled up and just kept flying north and crashed in the housing area north of the airport. Kemo Sobe and I helped get the 20 out of the street. The nose of the ship hit a pickup truck's left door, shoved the truck into the curb and broke both right side axles...........the whole thing acted like a big shock absorber, pilot wasn't injured too badly. I got my LS-6 from insurance salvage at that contest (first 15 meter nats at Uvalde) after the pilot got low before the gate was even open and landed in an 8 foot high corn field. Dehydration was suspected Cheers, JJ |
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