I've been lucky in that I've never suffered from motion sickness being
it in a car, on a boat or in a plane. One thing that surprised me was I
was acting as a safety pilot for a PP who was an instrument student. He
wanted to practice some under the hood and fly some approaches. The
airport was busy when we launched so I suggested we head to the practice
area and do some steep turns. We did the steep turns, very well from
what I saw and gave approach a call to request a few approaches. On the
way towards the FAF on a vector the student asked me if he could take
off the foggles for a bit as the steep turns had left him a bit queasy.
It didn't take long to get to the FAF at which point the foggles went
back on and he flew 3 decent ILS's and a reasonable VOR to a landing.

It's been a few years since I was undergoing my IR training so you
forget that some of this stuff can be a bit rough on the inner ear until
you've got more hood hours under your belt.

Experience is a great teacher.

Robert

Mark Hansen wrote:
On 12/13/06 12:26, Andrew Gideon wrote:

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:57:37 -0500, Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:


hen the fellow let me take the controls. We went up and down (gingerly)
and turned left and right (gingerly). Now that we were straight and level
(more or less) I began to get a little green around the gills.

That's pretty odd. One sure-fire cure for nausea I've found is to have
the ill passenger take the controls. The only time it didn't work is
when the passenger in question refused.

This is the first time I've heard of someone feeling ill from taking the
controls.

Any idea why?

- Andrew



When I was first practicing maneuvers (especially steep turns), I would
get really airsick - I remember asking my instructor to leave that practice
for the end of the flight, so I could get on the ground quickly after we
finished them. - I was at the controls the entire time.

I did get over it, though, but it took a while.