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.)

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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.

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

"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

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.

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


"Amine" wrote in message
...
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

Yes it will fade possibbly and as mentioned the control of the airplane will
help.

Don't eat heavy before flying, keep cool air on you. Don't look at the
ground below you! The fast motion your eye see confusses the brain because
it senses that you are not realy moving. Look at a distant horizon to help
ease the on set of motion sickness. That helps the brain think that what it
sees is what it also senses with motion.
"Amine" wrote in message
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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.)

On Mon, 26 May 2008 14:52:50 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

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.

what *causes* motion sickness oh wise one?

R. Gardner wrote:
Yes it will fade possibbly

"Yes it will fade possibly"? Isn't that like a double negative?? :-)


and as mentioned the control of the airplane will
help.

Don't eat heavy before flying, keep cool air on you. Don't look at the
ground below you! The fast motion your eye see confusses the brain because
it senses that you are not realy moving. Look at a distant horizon to help
ease the on set of motion sickness. That helps the brain think that what it
sees is what it also senses with motion.

Actually, my wife get's sick driving in the car on the *way* to the
airport. I think it's the "anticipation". :-)

Mxsmanic wrote in
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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.


Oh god he's back to medicine again.


Bertie

"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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