Tom , I am neither qualified or knowledgable enough to debate the medical aspects of this issue with an MD such as yourself. However since my post this morning and following the release of this article I am informed that there have been calls for the resignation of the author from his MO psition with CASA .

A number of professionals who ARE qualified to comment on the OP issue believe he has seriously understated the problems and the tests by Airbus and Boeing considered contamination (or lack of it) only in normal operations.

I passed on the info. for what its worth, but with some layman level knowledge of the OP problem, but I wholeheartedly agree with your final paragraph. Its almost as easy to treat the stuff as toxic with some simple precautions as you suggest. The older I get the more I value, treasure in fact, my good health ; I will still be using turbine oils for some time to come, but with some extra care !

The cabin air qualty issue is considered serious and ongoing but probably has no place on a model jet forum now that users have been advised that the stuff is toxic to a greater or lesser degree, so for now I'll leave it at that unless there are further develpoments which may be of interest or significance to model gas turbine operators.



Regards, David.