Nausea

[amillet]

My wife just forwarded me this message from one of our Mooney friends.  *** are to protect the identities of our friends.

 

From ****...very funny

We flew for breakfast to ******* this a.m., very very early, to avoid the heat.  All was fine & dandy until we are over ****** just east of ***** on our return and the airport controller is busy and asks us to circle for 7 minutes.  OK.  Well, quickly NOT ok.  It's getting hot by this time and the turns make me sick.  Very.  Puked a lot, kept my head down & eyes closed...and didn't realize until we landed that the puke bag sprung a leak.  So...yep...you can imagine the mess!  On me, the seat, the seat belt, the floor....!  BIG mess!  So, ***** brought me home & went back to the airport to get the seat cover off the seat.  Not so easy.  After 2 hrs, the seat cover is still on the f&@ng seat and the seat is jammed forward.  (** husband **) is not a happy camper.  And I got a lecture on how I'm supposed to make sure my puke bags are serviceable!  I guess there's some f&@ng puke bag quality assurance procedure that I wasn't aware of!?  

So...how was your f&@ng  day?

Luv u, *****

[Marauder]

I've been fortunate that I never had a cookie tossed in my plane. I have 25 year old barf bags on board and just reading this makes me want to run out to the airport and check them!

I always am careful taking a first time GA passenger up (explain a lot, gentle turns and descents). Today's passenger:

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[amillet]

My grandson (then age 10) threw up in our right front seat without a barf bag at all (they were in the seat back - he didn't say anything about feeling nauseous) - on our way to view total eclipse of the sun in Reno in 2012.  It cleaned up OK eventually. I haven't had our barf bags (stolen from airline seats) quality checked. Maybe I should.

[aviatoreb]

Two of my sons used to always barf.  Yuk! One completely got over it and loves airplanes and in fact is starting college in the fall to study aeronautical engineering because he loves airplanes so much.  My youngest will still sometimes barf.  I rarely take him flying since he doesn't like to fly - unless we are going someplace very very interesting.

I can recommend one thing - invest in some good barf bags.  There is better than airline quality.  Get the hospital quality bags.  They are plastic, and have a round plastic hoop.  They are easier to keep things clean and easier to seal up if the smelly deed happens.

[PMcClure]

The Airlines have the best barf bags. I have a collection from airlines all over the world. 

 

[Mooneymite]

Does anyone remember the airline barfbags (circa 1980) that were also pre-paid envelopes for getting your film developed?

That idea ended pretty quickly after the photo lab paid postage on several thousand bags of barf!  

[flyboy0681]

You mean these?

[Danb]

i had someone in the plane for a flight and cleaned the plane out including my 10 yr old barf bags, she was getting sick and instead of messing my plane up i took off my shirt and sweater and gave it to her to hurl in,quite cold and embarrassing upon landing, still better than getting all the Bravo

[201er]

Keeping head down and eyes closed is a sure way to get airsick!

[chrisk]

Thanks for the reminder.  I need to get some barf bags.  My current plan has been to hand my flight bag to the passenger.   Fortunately I've never had to do this.

[Mooneymite]

2 hours ago, flyboy0681 said:

You mean these?

Wow!  That's a collector's item now....  

[flyboy0681]

I also have one from Pan Am

[cliffy]

Bob Hoover barfed his guts out for a long time when he was first learning to fly!!!

[Piloto]

Nausea is very common in boating. I found on myself and others that once you go through the nausea boating experience you will not experience it again when exposed again. I found that I can work on ships engine room while at sea and even eating a hot dog. If I stayed long at sea when I get back to land I feel land moving as I was on the ship for a few days. Never felt nausea on a plane.

José

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[Hector]

Only got sick once in a small plane. I was sitting in the back seat of a Cherokee 6 on a hot summer day in south Florida eating a large bag of Doritos while my buddy was doing steep turns and accelerated stalls. I started complaining but he was not listening. I bet that Cherokee still smells like Doritos.

[aviatoreb]

Ever been on the whale boat tour?

Once my family of 3 boys, and I and my wife took the whale boat tour out of Bar Habor.  It is a high speed motor catamaran that takes you I think about 40 mi or so off shore to a known feeding spot for whales.  Lots of them. We saw about a dozen whales during the several hour trip it was fantastic.  

Except.....

There were probably 100 people on the trip.  I bet only 15-20 people saw whales.  Everyone else, including my wife and two of my sons, were down below puking their guts out.  Almost everyone got terribly seasick once the long wave oscillations of open ocean started rocking the boat.  I went down below to try to encourage them to come up and breath fresh air and watch the horizon rather than sit below lying down - like everyone else, with their eyes closed smelling and hearing 75 people puking.  Yuk - that environment was making me sick so I had to go back up on deck and then I was fine again.

We have been back to Bar Harbor many times and we see all the happy people getting on that whale tour boat, and we see some pretty queasy people getting off.

[DonMuncy]

I suffered from airsickness quite a bit when I was training, and even now, on rare occasions, when under the hood, I will feel a little queasy.

Interestingly enough I have never felt sick when I was the only pilot on a flight. It is as if my body knows that I can't afford to be sick, if I am solely in charge.

[FlyDave]

I keep a couple of SW Airlines barf bags in the plane for these occasions. I figured I've earned them over the years.

I also keep some one gallon zip lock bags in the plane to keep the stink contained after the event. The one gallon bags are also large enough to hold half a chicken - just in case someone went crazy strapping on a couple of feed bags before the flight. Marauder - you may want some of the two and a half gallon bags for your girls.

[bonal]

I'm lucky that I've never experienced motion sickness and even luckier that my wife hasn't ever on any of our flights but there was a time or two on the back of our rice rocket in the twisties she felt a bit sick. What's really amazing is she is completely at ease on the back of that bike. I could never do that.

[1964-M20E]

I have had 3 people get sick in various planes over the years.  All of them used some device to contain the mess and keep it off the floor of the plane.  On my ling cross country flight in a C150 at 2500 bumpy and hot I got feeling real bad made the airport got a drink and fuel settled down  and got back in and finished the flight will no more issues. 

I have even been the Tactical Flight Officer in a helicopter doing tight turns about a point operating the camera and or search light.

 

If you are going to get sick that is the time to do it.  However, my experience has been if you have an important task to perform such as flying the aircraft, or running a camera, etc you are less likely to get sick feeling than if you are just along for the ride.

 

[Seth]

I have a weak stomach.  Always have. I get "car-sick" with all but a few drivers, which is why I tend to drive whenever multiple people are in the car.

When you are driver or pilot flying, you anticipate changes slightly better than a passenger which helps the bring connect the movement that the inner ear signal is sending.

Flying has hardened up my tummy.  I still get queasy during some hood work, especially upset recovery under the hood, as well as steep turns.  Steep turns are worse when I'm not the flying pilot.  Years ago I had an aerobatics lesson and tried hard but did end up getting sick and used a barf bag.  In moderate turbulence I also sometimes get queasy.

In my Mooney I carry many airline liberated barf bags as well as gallon ziplock backs for disposal should they be needed.

The ex-wife of a cousin of mine got sick at the end of a two hour flight landing in Detroit on Sept 1 2010.  We went to see the Redskins play the Detroit Lions in the game where Rex Grossman replaced Donovan McNabb during the final 1:50 to lose the game by fumbling the ball on a sack/strip which went the other way for a TD.  I personally believe she got sick due to her Halloween hangover and now the turbulent approach to Detroit.

That was in my 1967 M20F.  No one has gotten sick during the ownership of my Missile.

-Seth

 

 

 

 

[aviatoreb]

48 minutes ago, Seth said:

I have a weak stomach.  Always have. I get "car-sick" with all but a few drivers, which is why I tend to drive whenever multiple people are in the car.

When you are driver or pilot flying, you anticipate changes slightly better than a passenger which helps the bring connect the movement that the inner ear signal is sending.

Flying has hardened up my tummy.  I still get queasy during some hood work, especially upset recovery under the hood, as well as steep turns.  Steep turns are worse when I'm not the flying pilot.  Years ago I had an aerobatics lesson and tried hard but did end up getting sick and used a barf bag.  In moderate turbulence I also sometimes get queasy.

In my Mooney I carry many airline liberated barf bags as well as gallon ziplock backs for disposal should they be needed.

The ex-wife of a cousin of mine got sick at the end of a two hour flight landing in Detroit on Sept 1 2010.  We went to see the Redskins play the Detroit Lions in the game where Rex Grossman replaced Donovan McNabb during the final 1:50 to lose the game by fumbling the ball on a sack/strip which went the other way for a TD.  I personally believe she got sick due to her Halloween hangover and now the turbulent approach to Detroit.

That was in my 1967 M20F.  No one has gotten sick during the ownership of my Missile.

-Seth

So now the real reason you sold your M20F comes out.

[Seth]

1 hour ago, aviatoreb said:

So now the real reason you sold your M20F comes out.

She kept it in the bag entirely.  Actually happened in the flare as we were landing.  She couldn't have held it in 3 min longer?

 

 

[Ned Gravel]

23 hours ago, Piloto said:

Nausea is very common in boating. I found on myself and others that once you go through the nausea boating experience you will not experience it again when exposed again. I found that I can work on ships engine room while at sea and even eating a hot dog. If I stayed long at sea when I get back to land I feel land moving as I was on the ship for a few days. Never felt nausea on a plane.

José

Sea legs.  Takes a while to get back to having landlubber legs.  

[Marauder]

So, since some of you have admitted you are closet barfers, are any of you afraid of heights?

My toes tingle standing on my roof but I can be up 15,000 feet and nada.

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