g-LOC

Yeah, so, uh, unfortunate story.

In my F-16 school, I lost a really good friend of mine to, uh, G-LOC, G-induced loss of consciousness.

So he was dogfighting the squadron commander.

And your G tolerance is based off of your, I mean, your fitness for the day, right? If you're ti- it's just like getting into a fight.

That's what it wants.

You know, it's, it's limited.

And unfortunately, through that turn, and this is before the new G suits and the, what you were talking about, the auto G-CAST, he G-LOC'd and, you know, didn't eject, and left behind a wife and a unborn son.

Yeah, I hate hearing that.

Those sustained G-loads affect blood flow to the brain, require the pilot to strain hard against G-induced loss of consciousness using the anti-G straining maneuver, and put mechanical stress on the entire body, including the brain.

The anti-G straining maneuver protects against GLOC, G-induced loss of consciousness, in the moment.

Whether it does anything to protect against the long-term effects of repeated exposure is a different and as yet unanswered question.

Here's what you need to know about the research background.

Terrifying.

And here is where Buran's synthesis of the data is absolutely vital for flight surgeons evaluating HUD camera footage or telemetry, because 70 percent of GLOC cases will exhibit myoclonus.

Right.

Those violent, jerky spasms of the limb.

To an observer, that myoclonus looks indistinguishable from a grand mal-epileptic seizure.

It looks exactly like one, but neurologically, they are entirely distinct phenomena.

Because if you were recording an EEG during that GLOC event, you wouldn't see the high frequency epileptiform discharges characteristic of a seizure, right?

No, you would just see profound delta wave slowing.