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Aviation Policy for Women
- Thread starter CoastieG
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Luckily for me, I get sea sick a lot quicker and worse than I get air sick. I have to take the pills every time we get underway and it sucks when I forge them when I wake up. It was never bad on the big ships (LHD and CVN), but on a DDG I'm horrible.
GTIGirlVR6
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Talking about weight waivers....someone mentioned a waiver for 135?!? How often, or more I should say how LIKELY is it that they would waiver a person is ALMOST 100 lbs. ( I could try to gain a few?!?!)
GTIGirlVR6 said:
That is pretty low, it would probably depend on the type of aircraft you were in. Different jets have different types of seats and consequently different limits. I think the T-6 Texan II has the widest wieght range partially to accomodate women, but that is less than 5 years old with the latest seats. Prowlers had pretty old seats so it had tighter restrictions. If I remember correctly, the Harrier had pretty restrictive seats too.
The only women that I knew who were around 100 pds were too small for jets, mainly because of their size (pretty petite, around 5') but ejection seat restrictions would have factored into it as well. With newer jets (Super Hornets) coming on line though, the restrictions might have been expanded. The only people that will be able to give you a definitive answer are the physiology people (and even they screw up sometimes).
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