Vomiting in small aircraft

[pembquist]

Question for whoever flys real airplanes too.  Have you ever had vertigo while flying?  If so, how did you over come it?  By vertigo I don't mean the feeling that your instruments are lying to you I mean the sensation you get jumping off a merry go round: the world spins and snaps back repetitively.

[MachFly]

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[Wolfala]

Question for whoever flys real airplanes too.  Have you ever had vertigo while flying?  If so, how did you over come it?  By vertigo I don't mean the feeling that your instruments are lying to you I mean the sensation you get jumping off a merry go round: the world spins and snaps back repetitively.

Had 2 kids throw up in the back of mine. Needless to say, both parents and kids were cleaning the next 4 hours.

[Maverick]

I used to be the program director for a small non profit that gave kids the chance to fly airplanes. We would take off from the main airport let one kid fly then land at a side field, swap kids seats and fly back to the original field. In the spring to early summer it gets bumpy in SE AZ in the mid to late morning. sometimes the kid would urp but we had sick sacks for that in every bird. I also told each kid that if they did use the sick sack, it was theirs and they could keep it as a souvenir of the flight. The parents, weren't much on that idea. A couple kids did try to do that though. In our group anyone who had 5 kids get sick was an "ace". I had 2 to go when I left the organization. No one missed the bag. We had a very detailed instruction on the use of it in the preflight briefing.

[Melvin]

I puked in the back seat of a glider when I was 8 or 9.

Ham and eggs.

They had a bag. I didn't miss.

 

[cpxxx]

Never vomited in an aircraft. Came a bit close though while nursing a mega hangover in a Piper Cub. I hasten to add I was the passenger.

I have had the vertigo problem several times. It can come on very easily in IMC, particularly inadvertant entry. The only solution is to try to ignore the feelings and get the head down and fly the instruments until your head stops spinning. Ok for me with plenty of instrument time but it must be terrifying for someone with little or no experience.

Having said that my worst vertigo was last year on a fairground ride. Never again!

[Pigslilspaz]

Never happened to me. Then again, I'm the guy who could go to Six Flags sauced and go on all the rides without getting sick at all 

[800nate800]

Back in pell city i flew a 414 and i went through vertigo and i turned white flying left seat no puke sacks landed as fast as possible and though on in the hanger trash can.

[B-17]

Back in pell city i flew a 414 and i went through vertigo and i turned white flying left seatpuke sacks landed as fast as possible and though on in the hanger trash can.

The last of the great Aces high squeekerz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

implies being UNDER the age of 15...

[colmbo]

Sounds like you're talking about dizziness...never had that flying.

Have never been airsick as a pilot...I have been nauseated a few times riding in a Herc on a low level route before a jump.

Once had an idiot open the pilot window on the 206 and try to puke out the side.  140 mph airblast does wonders with chocolate shake vomit -- it was scattered from the instrument panel to the baggage area.  The best part was his girlfriend was seated behind him -- her face was completely coated with his puke.  And as Wolfala stated -- they all spent time cleaning the airplane.

Have had vertigo a couple of times, not a comfortable feeling.

[guncrasher]

I threw up 3 times when i first got my trakir and played aces high.  I did have a bathroom nearby and a very good dog to pick it up .


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[Tupac]

I started feeling sick when I was on a glider ride once, we landed and I puked in the grass next to the plane. That's the only time I've ever gotten sick on a plane. My (ex) girlfriend started feeling ill after a flight, but that was the closest I've ever had to someone getting sick on me.

Here's a pretty severe case of puke in the airplane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNK9DiP1oV8

[Tupac]

Back in pell city i flew a 414 and i went through vertigo and i turned white flying left seat no puke sacks landed as fast as possible and though on in the hanger trash can.

    

[jigsaw]

Haven't had a problem with it (knock on wood). Some people have found these to be helpful.

http://www.aeromedixrx.com/Reletex-Anti-Nausea-Device.html

I did, however, learn that doing diving with a hangover and getting saltwater backwashed into your regulator will have you practicing that "emergency maneuver" pretty quickly.

[Vulcan]

Question for whoever flys real airplanes too.  Have you ever had vertigo while flying?  If so, how did you over come it?  By vertigo I don't mean the feeling that your instruments are lying to you I mean the sensation you get jumping off a merry go round: the world spins and snaps back repetitively.

I had a full on vertigo attack 2 weeks ago, canalyths in the inner ear resulting benign positional vertigo. Have that crap happen in a small plane and you're dead meat. I couldn't stand let alone anything else. EMT's thought I was having a heart attack.