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Old 20th Aug 2007, 17:18
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helidriver
 
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I suffered on 'aerobatics' in the 'Spitmunk' every time and painfully worked through it knowing I would be on the Rotary Phase of my pilots course in no time. The next time I was sick was during my Instruments Phase where there was a fair bit of boozing in the evening due to our detached status and I nearly failed my initial Instrument Rating Test. After that, having eventually specialised onto surveillance duties, I only felt it after a night on the ale, even a couple of pints was enough when staring at the surveillance kit then onto binos and orientating the map then looking out the window. After 5 years of that I had a cast iron gut!

Imagine my frustration when sailing after a period of ground duty I spent all day sick, totally debilitated and wanting to drown! It was only a force 6!!

After some research on the web I utilised concoction of:

Full greasy fry-up
Bottle of Ginger Ale
Flat Cola
Packet of Ginger biscuits
Chewing gum

All of which individually should help, especially the ginger, and in my case the cast iron gut returned. Probably placebo, but who cares, worked for me.

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