Jack,

The anti-sickness pills are called 'Kwells', at least in the UK. I used
to take them for navigating in a rally cars, which is almost guaranteed to
make you throw up, especially on night rallies. The only side effect I
noticed was a slight dryness of the mouth, but perhaps you should take
medical advice on their suitability for flying.

I to had a slight problem with air-sickness in my early gliding career.
This didn't show up too much during my training, but became a problem
when I started to make longer soaring flights after going solo. Several
times I had to dive back to the airfield with full airbrakes out so that
at least I could be sick on the ground. However this passed with growing
familiarity with being in the air. I still sometimes feel a bit queasy on
rough blue thermal days flying with less than smooth student pilots (I
have since qualified as an instructor).

The best tips I can give are not to get too tense and to watch the horizon
as much as possible; this encourages a good lookout anyway.

The wrist band might have a psychological or placebo effect. If you pay a
lot of money for it and believe it will work, then it probably will!

Derek Copeland

At 10:12 09 November 2008, Jack wrote:
Thanks for the answer Willy,
That is bad luck that they don't work.
Since pressing lightly on my wrist between the tendon and the edna
instantly
eases the sickness I though there may be some chance that they work but
well
I'll have to try medication.
Another student told me that some tablets called "kwals" or "Qualls"
not
sure of the spelling work for him and he does not feel side effects.
As you pointed out it seems that all the drugs seem to have different
trade
names in each coutry, all the reccomended drugs I read about on the net
don't seem available here in Australia.

Thanks again
Jack