Air sickness

Does motion sickness fade away with experience? How many of you
seasoned pilots had/still have serious issues with recurrent nausea?
(Assuming of course an otherwise good health.)

In article ,
Amine wrote:

Does motion sickness fade away with experience? How many of you
seasoned pilots had/still have serious issues with recurrent nausea?
(Assuming of course an otherwise good health.)

Yes. Motion sickness effects can diminish with exposure and experience.
Not everyone gets over it and different people have better luck than others.

btw - this subject has been discussed in the past, you might want to search the
usenet archive for "Motion sickness" or similar subject lines.

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Bob Noel
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"Amine" wrote in message
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Does motion sickness fade away with experience?
As a CFI and an ex-Navy guy, I can confidently tell you that motion
sickness almost always dimishes (or disappears entirely) with continued exposure
to the conditions that initially trigger it.

How many of you
seasoned pilots had/still have serious issues with recurrent nausea?

The element of control is a huge issue with motion sickness. If you are the
pilot and you are manuvering the plane, your brain knows what is going to
happen, so motion sickness is much less likely to happen. Several experienced
pilots have told me that the only time they feel motion sickness is when they
are a passenger.

Vaughn

On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:58:26 GMT, "Vaughn Simon"
wrote:


"Amine" wrote in message
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Does motion sickness fade away with experience?
As a CFI and an ex-Navy guy, I can confidently tell you that motion
sickness almost always dimishes (or disappears entirely) with continued exposure
to the conditions that initially trigger it.

How many of you
seasoned pilots had/still have serious issues with recurrent nausea?

The element of control is a huge issue with motion sickness. If you are the
pilot and you are manuvering the plane, your brain knows what is going to
happen, so motion sickness is much less likely to happen. Several experienced
pilots have told me that the only time they feel motion sickness is when they
are a passenger.

Vaughn


truely, the easiest way to calm a passenger's airsickness is to place
cool fresh air on their face and have them fly the aeroplane.
of course in aeroplanes you own you can do that.
commercial aircraft just provide barff bags.

the australian airforce, I'm told, have one of those spinning
centrifuge seats and airsick trainees get to sit in it for periods for
a fair drubbing to get them insensitive.

Stealth Pilot

"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message
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the australian airforce, I'm told, have one of those spinning
centrifuge seats and airsick trainees get to sit in it for periods for
a fair drubbing to get them insensitive.


Bob Hoover claims that he taught himself aerobatics to get over motion
sickness.

Note: I am not suggesting that one should teach oneself aerobatics. Yes, Bob
Hoover did it, but he is Bob Hoover and you and I aren't - not by a long
shot.

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On May 26, 10:48 am, "Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk At Wow Way
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"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message

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the australian airforce, I'm told, have one of those spinning
centrifuge seats and airsick trainees get to sit in it for periods for
a fair drubbing to get them insensitive.

Bob Hoover claims that he taught himself aerobatics to get over motion
sickness.

Note: I am not suggesting that one should teach oneself aerobatics. Yes, Bob
Hoover did it, but he is Bob Hoover and you and I aren't - not by a long
shot.

You know, I had seen films of Hoover's cockpit, with glasses of water
not spilling while he did loops and the like. That guy's internal
gyros allowed him to keep the local g forces straight into the seat,
and that is not the way to overcome motion sickness tendencies. Now if
he flew with me at the controls, well, bring along enough zip lock
bags. And that's what I call straight and level!

I don't get sick in airplanes, but did at the most unexpected time
when sailing singlehanded across the Long Island Sound. the odd thing
was, I was busy, fully occupied, in fresh air, and boom. Once was
enough: I was afraid I was going to live.

the australian airforce, I'm told, have one of those spinning
centrifuge seats and airsick trainees get to sit in it for periods for
a fair drubbing to get them insensitive.

Stealth Pilot


In the US we call them roller coaster and carnivals.

the australian airforce, I'm told, have one of those spinning
centrifuge seats and airsick trainees get to sit in it for periods for
a fair drubbing to get them insensitive.

Stealth Pilot

I have suspected that those work quite well after several sessions, but that
first session will leave you qaueasy for the rest of the day!!!

I only know because, long after I had effectively cured my tendency to
airsickness in real airplanes, I saw one of those infernal contraptions at a
fair. Supposedly, they were also used for astronaut training, and that
tenpted me beyond my meager restraint...

I'm still curious whether it really works as well as advertised, but I'd
have to be sure it would remain available continuously and on demand for a
couple of weeks. So it seems like I'm pretty safe. :-)

Peter

Vaughn Simon wrote:
Several experienced
pilots have told me that the only time they feel motion sickness is when they
are a passenger.

Particularly if that passenger is in the back seat and/or the pilot
doesn't maintain coordinated flight.

Amine writes:

Does motion sickness fade away with experience?

Motion sickness caused by a specific situation tends to fade when that
situation is regularly and frequently experienced. It may still occur in
other situations, and the resistance to motion sickness even in the target
situation will fade if the situation is not encountered fairly frequently.