Jet Smarter: The Air Traveler's RX [Large Print]

by Diana Fairechild

Is flying hazardous to your health? This guide can help to minimize the hazards, ease passenger discomforts, and help prepare for the new challenges of flight. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892997495
• ISBN13: 9781892997494
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Flyana.com
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

This book can save your health, maybe even your life!

Jet Smarter is the Encyclopedia Britannica of air travel! Read it before you board an airplane - then pack it in your carry-on. This book can save your health, maybe even your life! There are more dangers in flying than you ever dreamed of. It's all in Jet Smarter. The book is hard-hitting, in depth, comprehensive, full of solutions, entertaining and often witty. It's a behind-the-scenes look from author Diana Fairechild, a savvy former flight attendant and now aviation health expert. Diana's advice on how to deal with flying is practical and useful. Her suggestions really work. It's obvious that she's been there, done that, and fixed that herself. Thanks to Jet Smarter, I can fly without being sick during and after the flight. I can think and work - or play - after a flying instead of going straight to bed to recuperate. Now, instead of dreading the trip, I actually look forward to it.

Jet Smarter - Diana Fairechild

I am a 68 year old retired Inter-continental airline forensic researcher - 30 years on the job, 5 continents, passenger on 64 airlines, 45 countries, some years 150 flights, mainly transatlantic, transpacific, plus many NorthSouth & SN. I became more tired and exhausted as the years went on and attended a world class sleep clinic in Toronto presenting with severe symptomology. I mentioned the frequent flying, but the doctor merely made a note of it for file, and that was that. I was subsequently diagnosed as having a severe depression and placed, by my doctor, in a chemical fog for 10 years.4 years ago a flight attendant "wised-me-up" and lent me her copy of Diana's book.Eureka!From a professional air accident forensic researcher point of view, this book has been researched as if for a doctorate diploma. Diana's writing, with extensive referenced materials and insight, has to be taken seriously by aircrew (many have their own copies), the Frequent Flyer who is gaining milage (and serious illness - usually misdiagnosed) as well as the occasional traveller. This book will be appropriately recognized in time, but for some people it may be too late; - medical misdiagnosis, chemical fog, electro-convulsive therapy(?), and a diminished life enjoyment.I am grateful to this lady author, who learned her material through the school of hard knocks - a toxic aircraft work environment. Her knowledge is exquisitely FIRST-HAND! (unfortunately)!!Heartily and strongly recommended to all civilian and military flyers and passengers, and those that love them. I also recommend these people; flyers, passengers, and loved ones provide a copy to their doctors. The medical profession would be well advised to to take instruction from this exceptional tome.

An Invaluable Travel Guide

This easy-to-carry paperback is fun to read. Fairechild has a great sense of humor that reduces anxiety by letting you be prepared. You become stronger by reading this book and being able to protect yourself from the rigors of travel. Where else can you find such topics as these: Why people swell up on airplanes, Aggravations aloft, Eating right in flight, Tray table tactics, Don't be shy about protecting yourself?Like a great teacher, Fairechild has been to the furthest lands and now gives us her insight to prepare us for a trip. By reading this book, you have the opportunity to prepare yourself with both expert knowledge and the happiness that one has when the trip ahead makes sense. Jet Smarter is an adventure in a book.

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

Cabin pressurization was one of the greatest advances in air travel. Aircraft could fly passengers higher-above the rough weather. Airsickness is rare today. But the higher altitudes, and resulting faster speeds and longer ranges, introduced a number of not so obvious challenges. This book covers the things that affect passengers today. Jet Smarter discusses jet lag, airliner air quality, toxic sprays, radiation, electromagnetic fields, altitude, pressurization, dehydration, G-forces, noise and much more. Then the book tells you what to do about them. The latest edition of this revised volume includes several specific air travel articles from Fairechild's business travel column on the ABC News website. Diana Fairechild is an airline health and safety advocate who has flown over 10 million air miles as a flight attendant. As a pilot (SEL and gliders, hang gliders and paragliders), skydiver (1,200 jumps, D-454), author and publisher, I fly quite often. I want to know the risks of flight so that I may balance them with the rewards. Diana Fairechild has revealed the risks and her book tells me how to minimize them. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.

The definitive guide to air travel health and safety!!!

No airline passenger should be without JET SMARTER, Diana Fairechild's definitive guide to air travel health. Drawing on her 21 years experience as an airline insider, Diana gives us a rare, no-holds-barred look at the dangers of jet travel and, luckily for us, offers hundreds of sensible ways to cope with or even avoid their impact on our health. Wonderfully readable, Diana's new book startles us with how hazardous airline practices are, comforts us with her healthy, personally-tested approach to surviving the travel experience, and entertains us frequently with her sometimes gentle, sometimes gritty, but always grand sense of humor.