Low back pain and low level flying

Low level flying is a very good tactical possibility to carry out a mission unseen by a hostile radarsystem. Nowadays, Western Europe in general and the Federal Republic of Germany in particular, decreased . the permissions to low level flying in assigned regions. That's why the Royal Netherlands Air Force is flying a part of the low level flying training in Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada. Twelve to thrirteen missions per pilot are flown within 12 days in a uninhabited region, threefold the size of the Netherlands, according a schedule in which the flying altitude decreases, the airspeed increases and the airtask intensifies. Caused by the high G-loads on the airframe, a lot of structural dammage of the aircraft is found, eg. dammage of the ventral vins and the tail; but also the flyer appeared to show more and different complaints than during and after flying in the Nether lands. Less facts in literature can be found about jet pilots and aproximately none about the specific F-16 pilot, relating to the influences of airspeed, flying altitude, vibrations and posture. In this study literature is collected, analysed and amplified with new specific data. Furthermore, vibrations at low level are analysed and accelerating forces are related to a biomechanic model