Flying with blind people
As you know, I'm involved with a charity that offers experience flights for sick and handicapped children in the Netherlands.
We have recently gotten a request to fly with two children, aged 10 and 13, that are 100% blind.
Now we can just take them on a normal flight, but for sightseeing you need, well, sight. Duh. And if they want to actually control the airplane they also need sight, to see the horizon and/or the instruments.
So we were discussing whether a regular air experience flight makes sense for these kids, as the sensation will not be much different from being a passenger in a car.
One potential alternative we are now discussing is to take these kids on an aerobatics flight. Let them experience weightlessness, high Gs and negative Gs. All within reasonable limits of course.
On the other hand, we don't know if blind people are more or less prone to motion sickness, compared to "normal" people. On the one hand, they can't see (or maybe visualize) what's coming. On the other hand, their brains receive less conflicting messages.
Does anybody on here have experience with blind people as passengers, either on a regular or aerobatics flight? Any other things we should keep in mind?