u/TeddyNorth

I'm looking for a small dosimeter that can easily fit in a small briefcase "under the seat in-front of me."

I'm a general aviation pilot in the middle of a career change and hopefully will find work in the next few years as a professional pilot. If this works out, I've got about 20 years of professional flying ahead of me.

My wife is a flight attendant of the last 20 years.

In that same 20 years I've flown A LOT as a passenger long haul, both for work and for play. Usually about 30 flights a year both long and short haul.

My wife and I have long been aware of the hazards of ionizing radiation and our flying. We put the risks out of our minds ages ago and got on with life.

This Harvard study came out a few days ago and confirmed again explicitly what those of us in and around aviation have known for years. We get a lot of cancer.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/pilots-flight-attendants-have-greater-risk-radiation-related-cancer-death-other-professions

So it's piqued my interest again. Now I want to take a dosimeter with me and do some citizen science out of morbid curiosity. In particular I am curious the difference in exposure between the 777 and 787 as they are build very differently.

Want to take readings at home, take it to 5-7k feet in the Cessna where I'm normally at, take it to FL36 on the next transpacific haul, and if it works out, take it to a few high altitude destinations to see what the background radiation is in Mexico City and Quito if I can remember to pack it.

Posting this here with the hope that someone working in nuclear medicine would know where to buy a dosimeter at a reasonable price ($100 or less?) that actually works and would allow easy calculation of cumulative exposure.

Thanks!

• Northern California.
• Bites don't itch.
• Contained to at and just above the ankles.
• Only discovered them this afternoon, right after a shower.
• Checked bed for bed bugs - none that I could find, no sign of blood on sheets. Wife is free of bites.
• 4 days ago I had a job for work outside in a rural space north of Mt. Tam. in Marin.
  • Did not feel any bites at the time, routinely checked for ticks, wore long pants, socks and closed-toe shoes.
  • Not certain this event is even relevant, but included for context.
• Walked through some ice plant several times today to get to the grill at a cookout.
  • Again, don't believe its relevant, but included for context.
  • Was wearing long pants, socks and closed-toe shoes.
• No pets.
• Never really experienced this before.

Thanks for anyone's help.

I love it. Keeps great time too….

I really like my ASA Overcasters. They work really well in the plane during the day as they allow me to keep my sunglasses on when I reach DA. I mean they are flimsy and I've repaired them twice with packing tape but they are lightweight and flip up easily and quickly. I don't worry about them flipping back down inadvertently during a landing.

At night its a different matter. I don't wear prescription glasses yet, thank god. So I can't use the Overcasters at night when training IFR. I have tried a couple different types of view-limiting safety-glasses style foggles that I literally have to pull off, and it never seems to go very well. They don't come off smoothly. My headset usually gets slightly dislodged, and then the foggles fall between the seats and it just feels like a clunky way to train at night.

I was hoping to find something that works like the overcasters but doesn't require glasses, allowing for a flip-up action.

The JeppShades seem to fit that bill, BUT at night, like many of you I wear a headlamp that already has an elastic going around my skull.

Thoughts? Anyone found something that works well? My googling is not resulting in good finds. Thanks.

Edit: my search is on hold thanks to learning the GMT models are annoying compared to the purist.

This is tough. I prefer the bronze pvd with the patina in some sense because I wear a rose gold wedding band. The hue of my particular ring works well with my skintone. Stainless doesn't look bad on me though.

Stainless will probably look more classic 10+ years from now. I intend this to be a long term purchase. I can't afford luxury purchases often, and this will be a gift to myself because I recently finished an important personal project many years in the works.

I wonder how the "bronze" pvd will look in several years of regular wear? Scratches, perspiration, life… I rather like how the blue dial and the bronze pvd are not quite opposites on the color wheel but close enough to look really nice.

I've searched carefully for images of both watches in the wild. Honestly, they both look great. Love how the stainless is brushed. Gahhhhh, decisions!

No, I can't buy both, and to be honest, I don't want both.

Thoughts?

If I wanted to give a glycine as a gift, which models come with the nice wooden box and "remove before flight" tag these days? Do you have to order from the European store? The presentation looks amazing, and is a real cherry on top of really unique line of watches, especially if presenting as a gift.

Thanks.

For those who have regularly worn their glycine with the faux patina stainless case and bezel, what has been your experience with long term wear?

As the watch endures daily wear, how do scratches show? Does it look odd or bad? Does it work out well and actually get better looking?

Thoughts?

I really like the blue dial of the new Promaster Land GMT. I don't mind the NATO, in fact, I'd love to wear it with one often. I just know that I'd like the option of the bracelet. The burgundy dial is great too, but I know I'd rather go blue.

I don't care to buy the burgundy just so I have a matching bracelet to put on the blue one. So I have been looking for a replacement. More difficult than it seems to find one that gets the brushing to match. Am I looking in the wrong places?

I attempted to contact citizen parts and service. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What a joke that was. Don't waste your time…