--Motion Sickness--

[masmith]

Hi I'm going flying next week and from my previous experiences I have felt quite sick when flying -G and areos.

Does anyone know any cures for motion sickness?, apart from a motion sickness tablet, they make my mouth dry and kind of drowsy...does anyone one know anything else?...

Or some way to vomit before the fight!
(apart from sticking your fingers down your throat)

Ive tried many things apart from flying on a empty stomach which I will be giving ago...but I'm willing to try almost any thing,

any advice or tips are welcome

Masmith

[ozzy72]

Two things;
a) look out of the cockpit not at the controls as that helps your brain to orientate.
b) don't eat or drink anything for about 2 hours before the flight. Especially avoid fizzy drinks or sweet things

[EGNX]

Two things;
a) look out of the cockpit not at the controls as that helps your brain to orientate.
b) don't eat or drink anything for about 2 hours before the flight. Especially avoid fizzy drinks or sweet things

Ditto! Are you going with ATC?

[C]

Hi I'm going flying next week and from my previous experiences I have felt quite sick when flying -G and areos.

Does anyone know any cures for motion sickness?, apart from a motion sickness tablet, they make my mouth dry and kind of drowsy...does anyone one know anything else?...

Or some way to vomit before the fight!
(apart from sticking your fingers down your throat)

Ive tried many things apart from flying on a empty stomach which I will be giving ago...but I'm willing to try almost any thing,

A) Make sure you're fully hydrated before you fly - but make sure you have a pee before getting in your parachute.

B) Don't fly on an empty stomach. Make sure you've had a decent breakfast a couple of hours beforehand.

C) Follow through on the controls, and keep your head outside the cockpit. If G really is a problem just let the pilot know - standard aeros for cadets should be flown pulling no more than 3G - let the pilot know before you take off. He may well let you take control - often that input of having to concentrate can clear your head.

D) Try not to think about how you felt last time.

E) Remember to tense you muscles when pulling even 3G - that is quite a lot for someone who is not regularly experiencing G.


Remember, above all its your 20-25 minutes. Do what you want to do. My suggestion in your case may be to spend the first 10-15 minutes letting you fly the aircraft - the climb to height (normally about 6 or 7 minutes) and then doing some simple handling (turns, maybe some gentle wingovers, getting progressively steeper) for 5 minutes or so, then try 5 minutes of aeros (15-20mins), before the transit back to the airfield (assuming in most cases that it takes about 5 minutes).


Above all - enjoy it...

[Ecko]

Going flying on an empty stomach?!

I've never suffered from motion sickness, but I certainly wouldn't even consider going flying, or anything else actually, on an empty stomach. There's nothing worse than going "sugar cold" when having to fly a plane, or drive a car, or anything really.

[C]

PS- where are you flying? Colerne?

[masmith]

Well when I mentioned G its only negative G that gets me when the positive unloads but I suppose it bugs everyone,

yer I'm going flying with the cadets in about 4 months but, I was referring to next week I'm going flying with my dad
Lyneham--->Old Warden (Shuttleworth) spending a few hours there,--->Halton,--->Lyneham.
Unfortunately I wont be doing any aeros on this trip as were flying a Piper Warrior, but I do sometimes feel slightly :-/ but never severely.

Ill just have a decent breakfast, maybe a sickness pill, and water but nothing two hours before the flight. that should do.

Charlie when I go flying with the cadets its at RAF Benson.

[C]

Well when I mentioned G its only negative G that gets me when the positive unloads but I suppose it bugs everyone.

Ill just have a decent breakfast, maybe a sickness pill, and water but nothing two hours before the flight. that should do.

Charlie when I go flying with the cadets its at RAF Benson.

Ok. You just need a pilot you can avoid -ve G!

It should be (well is) entirely possible to fly aeros in a Tutor and have very little if any G less than 1 recorded, although obviously turbulence can cause little bursts of G somewhere between 0 and 1G (the kind of feeling you get when going over a humped back bridge). Often this occurs when returning to the airfield or whilst in the circuit.

Smoothly flown aeros (smooth onset and relaxation of G) shouldn't present too much of a problem.

PS. You're flying to Old Warden. I'm very jealous!

[expat]

The only times that I have suffered sickness, was when I flew on an empty stomach. I go with Charlie and Ecko on this one.

Matt

[RitterKreuz]

if you must eat before a flight - eat bananas - they tast the same coming up as they do going down

[EGNX]

if you must eat before a flight - eat bananas - they tast the same coming up as they do going down

:-/ I wont ask how you found that out....  ::)

[expat]

if you must eat before a flight - eat bananas - they tast the same coming up as they do going down

If it is a nose barf do they smell the same too.

Matt

[RitterKreuz]

dunno about that

but i once had a cute young lady walk into the FBO on one slow spring day saying that she wanted to see what aerobatics felt like in real life. so i took her up.

did two hammerheads and a roll and she decided that was awesome but had enough... blew chunks on short short final.

appears that all she had to eat that day was something that looked like scrambled eggs and smelled like a six pack of keystone light.

after washing down the plane i asked her what she had to eat... and i guessed right. an omlet for breakfast and some brewskis around lunch time.

fortunately for me she was wearing white and needed to use the water hose to clean her shirt off.  

(  o  Y  o  )  AOOOOGA!!!

[beefhole]

I guess it depends upon the person, I know me personally my stomach is much more finnicky if I eat.  I don't get airsick, but it holds true for other things as well.

[C]

fortunately for me she was wearing white and needed to use the water hose to clean her shirt off.  

Did she not have a sick bag? Personally I carry four - all for the passenger!

All through my training I used the same two sick bags, thankfully I didn't have to used them, as they were quite tatty after a year...