Airsick
Who here will admit to getting air sick and when was the last time? For me it was my first long XC. We made it halfway to the destination airport and I almost hurled. When we landed I took about 15 minutes to eat some crackers and relax and I was fine. It was odd b/c I don't ever get motion sickness unless I'm on some sort of carnival ride.
I did about 15 hours worth of aerobatic training between my PPL and CPL and I would often end those flights at my limit, having to tell the instructor that I'd prefer to not take them up on their offer on doing a couple more minutes of extra stuff since we were done what we needed to do. Work on hammerheads some more? No, we need to get the ATIS and start back now because Nick's clock is ticking!
A few months went by between GA training flights after my commercial and CFI and that was enough to put me back to the beginning as far as motion tolerance. I had to cut the first several of my CFI lessons short because I knew I would get sick if we continued. It also took me two lessons to do the spin endorsement.
I determined the things to do before that would help the most were:
- Get enough rest. Flying tired, among other undesirable things, made me more susceptible to motion sickness.
- Be hydrated.
- Don't be on an empty stomach.
- Lots of fresh air in the cockpit once maneuvering.
- Induce, recover. Induce, recover. I'd occasionally spin myself around in my desk chair to get a little dizzy and then let myself get back to normal. Then I'd do it again. I do believe this did help a small amount in getting my inner ear to put up with more aerial nonsense.
Bananas are good to eat because they taste the same coming up as they do going down.