Coffee

[EagleRJ]

Speaking of tea, you can make "sun tea" in the summertime during a turn at the outstation. Get some bottled water from the galley, stuff some tea bags inside, and put it in the sun out on the ramp (where the fuel truck won't run over it). By the time you are ready to leave, the tea will be ready. Sugar to taste and pour over ice- none of that hot tea bull$@&% like the Brits do!

Standard commuter-dog hydration technique.

 

[hagen]

I get up around 6 am everyday just b/c my body knows the routine. That is if scheduling hasn't called by then to throw down 5-6 cups followed by a good hearty CHAW(COPENHAGEN) usually after this I'm so hyped up I can run around the crashpad all day long. I GOT MAIL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dmspilot00]

Speaking of tea, you can make "sun tea" in the summertime during a turn at the outstation. Get some bottled water from the galley, stuff some tea bags inside, and put it in the sun out on the ramp (where the fuel truck won't run over it). By the time you are ready to leave, the tea will be ready. Sugar to taste and pour over ice- none of that hot tea bull$@&% like the Brits do!

Standard commuter-dog hydration technique.

Tea is also a diuretic.

 

[EagleRJ]

True, some tea has as much caffeine as coffee. I don't know about the Lipton tea on the planes, but it doesn't seem to pack the punch of coffee!

 

[Beechnut]

I get up around 6 am everyday just b/c my body knows the routine. That is if scheduling hasn't called by then to throw down 5-6 cups followed by a good hearty CHAW(COPENHAGEN) usually after this I'm so hyped up I can run around the crashpad all day long. I GOT MAIL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

Funniest post I've seen in awhile!

Nice one.

I GOT MAIL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


S.

 

[Vik]

I have Lipton tea now. Not even close to coffee, but it tastes pretty nice with a slice of lemon.

 

[CatYaaak]

Geez, fretting about "staying hydrated" and "diuretics"! From the sound of it, I've accidently wandered into an old folks home. What's next, a thread on how granola = regularity, or maybe how one requires an ANR headset to protect their sensitive ears from hearing damage in the "noisy" cockpit of an RJ???

Perhaps some here should voluntarily consider turning in their medical certificates on the grounds of "general system frailty". If you don't, then do yourself a favor and never fly, or fly in, an open cockpit aircraft. Take away the level of environmental protective cocooning you enjoy and upset the delicately timed, balanced and purified consumption you apparently require to function as a pilot and instead expose you to the raw elements, no doubt your entire body would shut down immediately and you would just up and die.

 

[Purple Haze]

Nectar of life and all that is good.

2 cups o' black Starbucks in the morning, 1 in the afternoon.

If you want a reason to quit, go to the medical section at Barnes & Noble (while sipping a nice hot Starbucks), and read "Caffeine Blues," by Stephen Cherniske, M.S. His evidence says its poison.

As for me, I don't carouse or smoke -- java warms the soul.

 

[enigma]

OK, all of you party poopers. I quit coffee.

regards,
8N

PS I lie, and I'll never give up my chocolate covered expresso beans. I prefer the dark chocolate ones (from Canada) over the bulk packed ones you get at the coffee store.

 

[avbug]

Coffee is very, very bad for you. It does terrible things to your body and mind. It's harmful, and damages your body. That's why when flying I consume nothing but Red Bull in a beer hat, and wear a red bull patch to soak up those extra elements that I miss the rest of the time.

Red bull is appropriate when flying, because after all...it gives you wings.

Good gravy, that stuff is disgusting.

 

[dmspilot00]

Avbug, what are you saying is disgusting, coffee or Red Bull?

Anyway. Beer is better for you than milk.
http://www.milksucks.com/beersurvey.html

 

[MIKE767]

Coffee is quite good in my opinion, especially

when you wake up at 4 am to commute in to fly 5 legs ending a

day at 10 pm.

 

[CHIEEEEFS]

charbucks

Anyone know what a 'shot in the dark' is?

If you are really low on gas order one at CharBucks.

Someone in line ahead of me got one and said it was coffee with a double shot of espresso, 'in the dark'.

Ouch, my nerves hurt thinking about it.

 

[jetexas]

Carrribean Coffee is the best. If any of you folks are in the islands, pick up some of the local coffee. great stuff.
I have traced back some of my worst headaches to caffeine addiction, so be careful. You know, realllly bad headache and then it quickly goes away after a cup o joe.

I like the Lipton Tea in the blue can. Great stuff and it really gives you a kick.

 

[Chickenhawk]

Published facts for you....

"NBC reports that some studies have shown coffee associated with the reduction of colon cancer and bladder cancer because of the phenols it contains"

"Drinking coffee with caffeine increases metabolism"

"1999 study to the American Chemical Society that caffeine has no affect on the area of the brain involved with addiction at doses of one to three cups of coffee per day"

"A 7 year Scottish Health Study that people who drink coffee are less likely to suffer heart disease"

Can't say anything about the "shot in the dark". My scout master said I could get a badge for it, but I never followed through.???