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Old 20th Aug 2007, 18:23
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Hueymeister
 
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5000+hrs and still sick as a parrot

I've been suffering ffrom air sickness since I first started to fly (some 25 yrs now) and still get nauseous after 5000+hrs in a multitude of aircraft. I used to be a staff cadet on an AEF, and was regularly sick when I flew, then as a staff pilot the staff cadets had a competition to see how long it would take them to make me honk; about 15 mins was the average. 1300hrs in NI, of which approx 1/2 was sat hands on the programme looking down at a 50,000 desensitised me a tad, but aeros still make me queasy. Teaching wingovers in Squirrels in the Summer as a double header would also invariably make me ill. Worse yet, 3 years with the dark blue on the oggin, the worst i've ever felt was on Argus going across the Bay of Biscay. The cabins were 100ft above the blue wobbly stuff, and boy could that thing wobble. Not made any more pleasant sharing a cabin with JB who had an unnatural propensity for getting nude at EVERY opportunity.

Still, Grob refresher in 3 weeks, can smell the honk now!!!!!!!!!!!!
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