Rough Air????

[dragonflyerthom]

The best suggestion so far has been the one gallon freezer bag. Yesterday I Velcroed one on the passenger side of my gyro. I may never use it and when I start carrying passengers I will have it handy. When flying yesterday it was rough and gusty and this reminded me of this thread. Thanks to all who have shared their experiences. you guys rock for sure.

 

[All_In]

Once a passenger threw up in his shirt and didn’t spill a drop on the red crush velour seats and once had a sick passenger, from drinking the night before, drop his draws and relieve the pain in a sick sack with his sweater covering the seat. Poor guy was standing at Burbank’s Exec’s bathroom bare ass from the waste down in front of the sink cleaning crap off of the inside of his Levies from the crotch to almost the end of each leg with his hands.

Well I almost, always, say I don’t get seasick?
I have 10’s of thousands of miles logged at sea months at a time. Seasickness is a strange thing, but I’ve had a few days (not even the roughest by far) I had to really concentrate not to spew for a few minutes to a full day once. I’ve been sick at sea of course but with other symptoms and causes like a fever or drinking too much.

For me 99% of the time no matter what the conditions it feels the same as on land, but every once in a while my stomach doesn’t feel well and I think that is seasickness.

All the real captains of boats less that 200 feet that I know confess to having experienced some from of at least feeling sea sickness maybe 1 out of 200 days while at sea.

I know from years of observations, that once most start throwing up they can’t stop, but for those that can keep their stomach content in place it will pass in a few hours, day, or days, never to appear again for the rest of the trip.

Of course I never flew the day after new years like Birdy for fear of sharing his experience, fairly confident that was alcohol poisoning and not airsickness, my friend!!!

Never even felt a little sick while flying in turbulence, aerobatics or anytime, ever!!!

And I’ve been caught in turbulence so bad that I wasn’t sure if it did not invert us on a few occasions where you couldn’t drop a coin or it would beat you to death trying tell where gravity is only made it rattle back and forth on the roof and the floor equally according to the up or down draft, just kept it flying slow and waited for the engine to quit then I would have turned her right side up and restarted. We just looked at each other and said, “Well if we are upside down she sure is flying well, I don’t think we have a problem yet!”

I don’t fly in weather anymore, not because of turbulence, heck admit it. Some of you too think it’s fun. I’ve had much rougher bone jarring rides/ crashes racing off road; ICE even with deicer scares me!
If you have time to spare go by air, if time is a joke, go by boat.

 

[Resasi]

Yes the Bundy is pretty rough stuff. I made smoother Sidiqi in Saudi in my pressure cooker. Didn't make you sick either.

In charter, in close proximity to pax when they started heaving it was the smell that started me feeling bad. Only time it didn't was when the bastard beside me barfed into my briefcase. I was so mad I forgot about felling ill. When you get to the airlines you leave all that stuff behind the cockpit door.

 

[LuftCarl]

When I was still in high school, the youth group I belong to went on a deep sea fishing trip. There were probably about twenty of us kids on this small boat. We went out over the horizon so there was nothing but water and sky as far as you could see. A few people started feeding the fish almost immediately, some took longer. I was doing fine. A buddy was looking pretty green, but was hanging in there. Of course, there were a bunch of birds hanging around the boat. One of them dropped a load and hit James right in the cheek! He almost threw himself over the rail trying to keep the puke off everyone one else. It was hilarious! Later, James said it wasn't so much that it was bird sh!t as it was the fact that it was warm! I laughed so hard I thought I was gonna puke!

 

[All_In]

Very funny guys, at least for those not sick.

Carl reminded me of trip with my 1st daughter's pre-school class. She was 4. We showed up at the dock to board the (cattle boat) to go on a whale watching trip. Took one look at the bay it was rough. So I found the principal (he a Pastor/ Mister of a church also) and teacher and told them I would cancel the trip. I explained that it was going to be confused sea's and my daughter and I would be fine as she grown up on the sea, but the rest of these kids are going to be sick and miserable and with the sea and white caps it will be hard for the captain to see the whales blow and we won't see any.

They declined to cancel. Well as soon as we left the bay and hit the first wave the parents started chumming the fish. Soon a couple of kids started too. The sight and smell almost made me spew.

I knew I needed to distract them, could not see any whales in seas like this.

So I lied and yelled there she blows look there a whale. It worked they stopped for a while, but the captain sent the first mate to ask where was the whale to turn towards it. I explained I lied to distract them so they won't think about being sick. The Pastor figured out what I was doing and ask if I could go lie to the people on the other side of the boat as it really seems to help.
Finally they figured out that we better go back.
But on the way in they stopped looking for the whales and most parents started throwing up and could not hold there children up over the rail so the kids were hitting the deck. I handed my daughter to the first mate and ask him to keep her with the captain as she wasn't sick so I could run from child to child holding them up to spew over the rail not allover themselves. That was the worst boat trip of my life and the hardest I ever had to work not to puke!!


PS:
I found it interesting that over half of the parents actually said they saw the imaginary whale, but none of the children said they could see what wasn't really there.