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fred_the_red
Agree with tartare. I remember spending many hours in a Nimrod S&R over the North Sea. Hour after hour of very low level 90 degree turns had even the most hardy of crew reaching for the bags.
Good luck to everyone involved in the operation
Add the fact that the poor bloody coneheads sitting in the cabin of the aircraft are all facing sideways...
Go get em 10/11 Sqn
Yep. I've been on lots of P-3B flights with (side facing) nugget sensor operators. Sub hunting involved flying lots of low level patterns. We always made them clean their own barf off their consoles. Yech.
My secret to not getting sick (beyond experience) was good Navy box lunches. Slowly eating those, and periodically orienting to face straight forward, did the job. It wasn't helped by the smell coming from the tactical spaces.