I had my first real experience of Gs a few weeks ago during a flight in an RAF Puma.
Forgive the following phraseology as I am not professional and even less knowledgeable when it comes to rotary wing.
We did some 'parabolas,' pulling into a steep climb then over the top of it and down again. Repeat several times. Pulling into the climb was fine, but going going over the top and starting to come down, well I painted my pants.
I was lucky to be sitting in the creman's seat, in the 'doorway' into the cockpit with two walls and a low ceiling surrounding me. As soon as I felt my stomach rising my hands shot up trying to push the ceiling out of the way! Kestrel didn't like this bit, especially the first time.
There were 13 civies onboard including moi, and most weren't looking too well while the two upfront laughed away and the crewman made frequent trips almost to the ceiling, since I had stolen his seat.
Then 60degrees of bank and pulling into the turn, driving Kestrel into his seat. This bit I preferred
though I still walked away after landing a bit wooobly legged and in no rush to return, but admittedly I am a bit of a control freak.
While on the subject, we are all experiencing 1G as we seat in our leather swiveling chairs, but anything less than 1G is commonly referred to, perhaps wrongly, as negative G? Should negative G only be that with a - infront of it?
Also, what difference can you feel between 0G, -1G, -2G etc. I know at 2G you'll feel twice as heavy and 3G thrice etc etc, but what about the other way?
Cheers