airsickness question

[picklesuit]

i appreciate all the responses, truly. i guess i knew i would get sick, but i was more concerned how the feelings of nausea linger around for about 24 hrs. would going to great lakes and seeing the flight surgeon be bad--as in would that go in the medical record and possibly NPQ me?

thanks again

Never, ever...ever...go to the flight surgeon voluntarily. EVER.

If your arm has fallen off, put duct tape on it and suck it up...

But seriously, don't shoot yourself in the foot by volunteering info like "I get motion sick"

Go fly, figure it out, and let the NAMI/physiology guys fix you. It may take some spins in the chair, it may take some prescribed meds, but their job is to get you through flight school. Not to attrite.

I cannot vouch for CC or Whiting, but the guys up at Vance AFB were awesome. They did a great job with my fellow classmates getting them through, and some of those guys puked ALOT.

Quit worrying about puking and concentrate on your next phase in training...worry about the flying when you get there.

 

[vick]

A guy I went through Kingsville with never got over getting sick. Every flight through his last one in the syllabus he would blow - early on he took bags with him, by the end he would just boot in his mouth and choke it back down. They had him try all sorts of things to no avail...G-warm, Fence checks, boot, press. All he had to do was blow it once though and then he'd be fine for the rest of the flight.

He asked for and got EA-6s based on that fact. He desperately wanted to keep flying jets, but the thought of daily dynamic flight was too much for him. I don't know how he fared in the long-term but I give him credit for "gutting it out" like he did, I don't know how I would have dealt with being that miserable on a daily basis. You gotta want it...

 

[P3 F0]

Quit worrying about puking and concentrate on your next phase in training...worry about the flying when you get there.

Agree 100%. But once you start FAMs, I'm not so sure I'd wait for the system to throw me in the spin'n puke pipeline rather than being proactive about it (if it's becoming a problem). Once you know you get sick, I'd say after a few flights maybe it's a good idea to get checked out. At least, if you're one of the poor SOB's that don't get any better after puking. I got sick a few times in training, and two times operationally. I've learned that once I start, I'll continue until I sleep (thank you Lockheed for P-3 racks) or get out of the environment. It ain't fun, and it's entirely non-conducive to training. Just something to consider if it begins to affect your grades.

If you're one puke and press, then by all means, gutting it out should be fine.

As far as the lingering effects go, I felt horrible the day after my first puke-Ex in the T-34 during ROTC. Just being in the Q and hearing a T-34 go into beta would get me nauseous. Made me re-think if I wanted to go aviation (a month on an AOE solved that). But since then, it hasn't been a problem. There are very few people that can't get through training or their first squadron because of this--chances are you won't be one of them.