Yes Gary, we did have the scales and I think I remember passing them on
to Lisa Trotter. Although I could be wrong there. They were, I think,
GFA property. Don't know why you didn't ask me at the time as I had to
deal with all Maurie's things!
I will try to look out the stuff Maurie & I did on the weight loss
during flight. It was quite often about 2kg or more. I think I still
have all the heart rate info too. I don't know if Maurie published it
all. If so, it would be in one of the A4 type S&Gs. Gary, I will look
out all the files on this and pass them on to you if you are interested.
Ann
On 31/03/2013 12:00, [email protected] wrote:
Interesting that you mention a comparison with motorsport. MaurieBradley
(Bradney)(who incidentally, as National Coach at that time, originally set up
the first visits to the AIS), liked to draw a comparison with marathon runners.
You mention doing weighing to measure water consumption. You do not have to do
this. If you started a flight with 5 law of drinking water and ended with 3 law
left, then it is quite obvious that you consumed 2 law! This means nothing!
However, among the many things that Maurie did to advance our sport (almost
certainly for the first time anywhere in the world), was that he did a great
deal of actual weighing of competition pilots, before and after a flight.[In
passing, I might mention that he also fitted out - generally the same pilots
who agreed to being weighed - many pilots with a heart rate monitor. It would
seem reasonable that these would give a level of stress, when correlated
against the pilots verbal report. (and maybe GPS data - this may have been
before GPS was available???) Anyway, under stress, glider pilots routinely
recorded heart rates of well over 200 .Personally, I do not find this
surprising.
Re weight loss, what Maurie found out was that inevitably, there was a
significant daily weight loss of pilots flying in competitions. Ann Woolf , can
you give us more detail? I am sure that Maurie must have published this data,
and of major importance, the conclusions he drew.
Matthew, what you must understand is that in this weighing, a set of bathroom
scales WILL NOT DO. Maurie used scales that measured to within a few grams.
Obviously these scales cost a whole lot more than everyday bathroom scales. A
figure that springs to mind is $400 at the time. However I am prepared to be
corrected on this.
After Maurie died, I enquired as to the whereabouts of these scales. I first contacted Cath Conway and then Bernard Eckley , both being RTO Sports SA around this time. Each denied having the scales, although knowing about them. It is highly unlikely that the scales were sent to the local tip. So I wonder where these scales ended up? Who has a VERY accurate set of bathroom scales?
Gary
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