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Another approach: Never take a first ride up in bumpy weather or for more
than 20 minutes. Yeah, it's more fun for us to do a 5 hour xc or outside
loops, but a 20 minute sled ride is a fantastic experience. If they like
that, they'll come back for more. If they even get queasy, let alone sick,
they will never, ever come back.

John Cochrane

Some folks just get queasy on the first ride, no matter what. I did, and
it was dead calm, almost no turns, no bumps. Motion ain't the only thing
contributing to motion sickness. Various military organizations have
done lots of research into motion sickness in an effort to prevent pilot
candidates from washing out of flight training. They identified anxiety
as a major factor in airsickness. The anxiety abates with time and
experience. In the short term, sometimes it really is "Better living
through pharmaceuticals".

Wish I'd had the scopolamine during that acro ride in the Great Lakes...

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