What selection would that be? Helos?
Relief tubes are like guns. You may not need them often, but when you do, you're glad you have'em....Relief tubes. I have never used one... contemplated it once.. but decided to hold it until we landed.
Maybe you can rig up something with the "Lady-J." :icon_wink
.... it's not a bladder issue, it's an aiming issue. .....
I'm not getting the female intentional dehydration thing. Yeah, I've used a piddle pack a couple of times, but on a percentage basis, it works out to a very small problem, something that could be solved by forgoing a preflight Coke vice actually intentionally dehydrating. It's not as if I'm whipping it out every flight. If they took piddlepacks and Gatorade bottles away, I'd grimace and bear it. Am I missing some female bladder detail here?
I'm in flight school, so the longest I fly is a two hour hop - no problem. Drink water, hit the head before I walk, hit the head before I debrief if necessary.
Piddle packs/AMXD - that's more of a concern for later in the fleet when I might spend 7-8 hours in the jet - getting dressed in all that flight gear, launching off the boat, executing a mission, refueling, flying, refueling, flying, landing on boat, getting out of plane, getting out of gear, finally seeing a head again. Can you be well hydrated and go 8 hours without peeing? If guys can do that, I'm impressed, but I can't.
Ok, I was being facetious with my earlier comment, of course I have other reasons for thinking P-3 selection, etc, but ease of peeing is a definite plus.
And for phrog, it's not a bladder issue, it's an aiming issue. I don't know much about fluid dynamics, but I know enough that if you think about the outward makeup of the female body, it's not exactly easy to make the pee go where you want. Hell, even squatting in the woods has its risks (sorry if that's TMI, but it's true!). Have you ever wondered why women get a larger cup during a urinalysis? This is why.
and since then I've enjoyed peeing on many things from a few thousand feet above them. Sometimes, I like to try and aim for cars in the parking lot when on downwind for 13L.