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	Admin Admin Group RCSB Owner/Founder	Joined: 22/July/2003 United States Posts: 5282 IP Logged
Posted: 01/June/2014 at 5:37pm

Hi all,

Here in the Southern US were are already well into flying season and it is heating up fast! A quick item I would like to bring up is we have a lot of visitors from up north and from Europe attend our events here in the south and there are a few tips to stay comfortable and safe if you will be traveling this way in the near future. While most of these seem common sense you would be surprised how many folks don't heed these tips (including me sometimes).

1. Make sure you are wearing adequate protection from the sun. Take a few minutes and apply some high SPF sunblock to help protect your skin from over exposure which might cause problems for you down the road.

2.A large brim hat with ventilated top while not "cool" to most folks is really the coolest headgear to protect you and to let your head disperse the heat it needs to from your body. Ball caps are TERRIBLE at this and allow your ears to get burned by the sun.

3. Wear loose light colored cotton/cotton blend clothing. This helps to reflect some of the heat from your body and keep you cool. While you may be making a fashion statement with that black t-shirt, all you are accomplishing is turning yourself into a heat-sink.

4. Drink plenty of water. Soda's don't do the trick here. You need good 'ole WATER to keep your body cool and operating properly. Every year someone I know that goes to these fly-ns / contest here in the south sufferers from some heat related problem.. Usually because they were not drinking enough water. So keep yourself hydrated!

5. Most importantly PACE YOURSELF. If you are in a new environment that you are not used to be sure and take your time and don't get in a rush. Now you know why we talk so slow down here.

Hope you all have a great flying season and hope to see some of you out at the fly-ins this year.

Be safe and clear skies!
Mike

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	mike celeskey Basic Member	Joined: 25/January/2005 United States Posts: 707 IP Logged
Posted: 01/June/2014 at 6:03pm

Let's add bug spray to all the good advice, and good sunglasses!

Mike

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	CdnFlyer Basic Member Hamilton, ON. Failed Kamikaze School	Joined: 28/July/2009 Canada Posts: 1153 IP Logged
Posted: 01/June/2014 at 7:01pm

And don't forget to keep all your digits on your hand, not in the prop by using a good restraint system adequate for the size and power of your aircraft.

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	Sandy69 Site Supporter	Joined: 19/September/2013 Canada Posts: 43 IP Logged
Posted: 03/June/2014 at 1:30pm

Last year, without thinking too much about it, I visited the plastic Johnny during a contest. Air temp in the shade was 31 celcius ( 102 to you guys).

Temp in that plastic heat sink of a loo, sitting in the middle of a field, HAD to be ferocious....I could feel my skin crackling, but was having an old man spasm so couldn't leave right away; finally finished socould crawl out, and spent the rest of the day laying in the shade, covered in light cotton, with the guys pouring water over the cotton to keep it, and me, wet.

No fun.....

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	Gaui Site Supporter	Joined: 31/October/2004 Iceland Posts: 913 IP Logged
Posted: 05/June/2014 at 10:31am

Come to Iceland -- we don't have these problems -- come to think of it, we don't have any problems, so long as there is enough beer going

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	ScotWare Lifetime Site Supporter	Joined: 29/January/2005 United States Posts: 2652 IP Logged
Posted: 05/June/2014 at 5:47pm

That sounds like an invitation!

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	Fleet Basic Member	Joined: 13/October/2011 United States Posts: 213 IP Logged
Posted: 05/June/2014 at 6:46pm

A cold beer and the hottest tap water I found in Iceland.

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	ScaleNut Lifetime Site Supporter	Joined: 30/November/2003 United States Posts: 2259 IP Logged
Posted: 11/June/2014 at 7:59pm

Mike,

I am one of those guys that got too hot last summer at an event. I was following your recommendations, but I all I was drinking was water. I found out latter the body needs electrolytes that it cannot get from water and I got to classic heat exhaustion...on step from heat stroke before I knew what was happening. The solution is to drink some type of sports drink to keep your system in balance, Power Aid or Gatoraid are the two that I rely on now. I also found out the US Marines say it takes a fully conditioned Marine four days to recover from heat exhaustion....took this old codger a full week to get back to normal. Not something to play around with, that's for sure.

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