First Puke

[MikeOH58]

So today I experienced my first "throw up" in the airplane. I have a friend who is into photography that has been hounding me to fly him on the NYC tour south on the Hudson, and Northbound crossing over Central Park, transition over LGA and over the bridges for some photos. So today (absolutely gorgeous VFR) I take him. He is chatty as can be and all smiles up until the Alpine tower when he pulls his camera out and starts taking shots. By the time we circle the lady and begin our north bound turn, he is near ghost white and not saying much at all. I tell him the old routine of focus on your breathing and try and focus inside the cockpit. Even give him the controls once we are clear of Manhattan, and that helps a little. I pull the barf bag out, and tell him to hold it on his lap. A couple minutes go by, and he tells me he is starting to feel better and would like me to take him above a layer of scattered clouds at 5k for some photos. Fine. Second we level at 5500, I hear "Oh CHIT!", and my buddy Jay chucks his camera in the backseat. Unfortunately for him, the bag got stuck in the cameras strap and went into the backseat 2. He looks at me terrified, knowing he has less than a second or two before last nights diner comes rushing up. I tell him dont you even think about getting puke on my plane. So what does he do? He puts his head down his shirt, and pukes the biggest chunks i've ever seen onto his belly. 30 seconds go by, and he finally stops. Normally im pretty queezy around puke, especially being in close proximity of it. Not today. Today was the funniest puking i've ever seen. I nearly started crying I was laughing so hard. He told me that he felt much better, and would still like to take some photos and I told him to screw himself lol. We landed, laughed our ass's off, and I sent him to a maintance hangar to hose himself down, and clean up whatever got in the plane.

All in all, an exciting day! haha

[FutrLftSeat82]

Originally Posted by MikeOH58

So today I experienced my first "throw up" in the airplane. I have a friend who is into photography that has been hounding me to fly him on the NYC tour south on the Hudson, and Northbound crossing over Central Park, transition over LGA and over the bridges for some photos. So today (absolutely gorgeous VFR) I take him. He is chatty as can be and all smiles up until the Alpine tower when he pulls his camera out and starts taking shots. By the time we circle the lady and begin our north bound turn, he is near ghost white and not saying much at all. I tell him the old routine of focus on your breathing and try and focus inside the cockpit. Even give him the controls once we are clear of Manhattan, and that helps a little. I pull the barf bag out, and tell him to hold it on his lap. A couple minutes go by, and he tells me he is starting to feel better and would like me to take him above a layer of scattered clouds at 5k for some photos. Fine. Second we level at 5500, I hear "Oh CHIT!", and my buddy Jay chucks his camera in the backseat. Unfortunately for him, the bag got stuck in the cameras strap and went into the backseat 2. He looks at me terrified, knowing he has less than a second or two before last nights diner comes rushing up. I tell him dont you even think about getting puke on my plane. So what does he do? He puts his head down his shirt, and pukes the biggest chunks i've ever seen onto his belly. 30 seconds go by, and he finally stops. Normally im pretty queezy around puke, especially being in close proximity of it. Not today. Today was the funniest puking i've ever seen. I nearly started crying I was laughing so hard. He told me that he felt much better, and would still like to take some photos and I told him to screw himself lol. We landed, laughed our ass's off, and I sent him to a maintance hangar to hose himself down, and clean up whatever got in the plane.

All in all, an exciting day! haha

You definitely painted a vivid picture in my head and made me LOL...HAHA!! That is too funny. He knew you meant business with the not puking in your plane comment...priceless.

[MSUDAWG]

Shoulda told him to walk from there and kicked him out! hahah Thats pretty funny tho

[CamYZ125]

Originally Posted by MikeOH58

I tell him the old routine of focus on your breathing and try and focus inside the cockpit.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that someone suffering from motion sickness should focus at some point outside of the airplane, preferably a great distance away or on the horizon.

Also, the whole 'giving them the controls' thing really works, in my opinion. I've never suffered from motion sickness while flying, except during my spin training in an Extra 300. After a few spins I was starting to feel a little uneasy.. I noticed that when I was sitting there watching the IP demo something I would feel the worse, but it subsided if I took the controls and even just flew straight and level.

And luckily I haven't had any students make a mess on a lesson.. yet.

[MikeOH58]

IMO the funniest part is that today was a magnificient VFR day with unlimited vis, and no turb what so ever. What made him queezy and eventually ralph was looking through the LCD screen while flying. Maybe it produced something like the inner ear problem we see when flying instruments, accept in his stomache! haha.

I'll never forget today though. Priceless.

[Murdoughnut]

Should of had him stick his head out the window and drop a vomit bomb from altitude ... meanwhile below, Johnny's friends and family circle around his b-day cake on a picnic bench next to the pool, singing in chorus, when all of a sudden..... mmmmwwwaaaahhhhhaaaahhhaaaa

[TheShortOne]

you made me literally, laugh out loud with that story!

[moxiepilot]

Originally Posted by Murdoughnut

Should of had him stick his head out the window and drop a vomit bomb from altitude ... meanwhile below, Johnny's friends and family circle around his b-day cake on a picnic bench next to the pool, singing in chorus, when all of a sudden..... mmmmwwwaaaahhhhhaaaahhhaaaa

dont do that it'll come right back in

[mojo6911]

I took some people for a ride once, and the backseat passenger puked all over himself, literally. He hardly got a drop on the plane, it was almost all in his lap.

[meritflyer]

Originally Posted by CamYZ125

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that someone suffering from motion sickness should focus at some point outside of the airplane, preferably a great distance away or on the horizon.

You're correct. Focus outside not inside.

[Doug Taylor]

I still remember my first (and only).

I was a CFII-MEI already!

I had a student who was fresh from a country where they don't have a tradition of using deodorant, on a hot, turbulent day over Gilroy during the Garlic Fest.

Dried, old sweat mixed in with the strong scent of garlic, choppy air and suddenly:

"Hey (name deleted), don't be alarmed, you're doing great... Don't take this personal..."

I cracked open the door of the 152, locked my elbow to hold it open slightly... loosened up the shoulder strap, bent down and aimed backwards and "called Earl"

Boy did I feel better after that!

[mtsu_av8er]

LMAO - I <3 Gilroy!!!

[Doug Taylor]

I vomited right in front of my student, but you know what? I was still a pimp.

[Screaming_Emu]

I've had two pukers. One was a friend of mine who was observing a flight back at school. The second was a student who was just so incredibly uptight during our lessons. We were on short final at KMTN and he says "uhh...can you take control?" I say "sure, why?". Then he scrambles for the bag. Thankfully he made it all in the bag. He apologized profusely, I told him that he doesn't need to apologize if he gets it all in the bag.

[SkyCougar]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

I still remember my first (and only).

I was a CFII-MEI already!

I had a student who was fresh from a country where they don't have a tradition of using deodorant, on a hot, turbulent day over Gilroy during the Garlic Fest.

Dried, old sweat mixed in with the strong scent of garlic, choppy air and suddenly:

"Hey (name deleted), don't be alarmed, you're doing great... Don't take this personal..."

I cracked open the door of the 152, locked my elbow to hold it open slightly... loosened up the shoulder strap, bent down and aimed backwards and "called Earl"

Boy did I feel better after that!

I wonder if your lunch landed on one of those Hell's Angels that hang at the Garlic Fest?...LOL

[Doug Taylor]

I'm sure it was somewhere splattered along the Pacheco Pass!

[mtsu_av8er]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

I vomited right in front of my student, but you know what? I was still a pimp.

Oh, yeah. That's a shameful walk back to the flight school, though! I've been there . . .

[eagledriver101]

Originally Posted by Murdoughnut

Should of had him stick his head out the window and drop a vomit bomb from altitude ... meanwhile below, Johnny's friends and family circle around his b-day cake on a picnic bench next to the pool, singing in chorus, when all of a sudden..... mmmmwwwaaaahhhhhaaaahhhaaaa

Damn I havnt laughed this hard in like 3 years OMG LOL

[eagledriver101]

Originally Posted by Screaming_Emu

I've had two pukers. One was a friend of mine who was observing a flight back at school. The second was a student who was just so incredibly uptight during our lessons. We were on short final at KMTN and he says "uhh...can you take control?" I say "sure, why?". Then he scrambles for the bag. Thankfully he made it all in the bag. He apologized profusely, I told him that he doesn't need to apologize if he gets it all in the bag.

And if he didn't?

[eagledriver101]

Something similar happened to me, when I got my private I took a Girl friend up for a flight out of KOGD to fly over Willard bay... And ya, I wanted to show her the coolest thing in the world... you know the "Floating Pen" Anyway, she said on the -G's I made her loose control of her bladder-muscles and she peed a puddle in my plane I laughed so hard LOL!! I couldn't land for 30 minutes..

[TFaudree_ERAU]

I used to go up and take pictures of real estate for an agent with the other CFI that I worked with flying the plane. I can attest to the fact that looking through a camera viewfinder for extended periods of time can make even a somewhat seasoned pilot (I had over 500 hours at the time) green in the face. After one trip, I kindly excused myself to the corner of the hangar (next to the water hose) after we shut down and let lunch go. The water hose took care of any evidence.

[caliginousface]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

Dried, old sweat mixed in with the strong scent of garlic, choppy air and suddenly:

"Hey (name deleted), don't be alarmed, you're doing great... Don't take this personal..."

I cracked open the door of the 152, locked my elbow to hold it open slightly... loosened up the shoulder strap, bent down and aimed backwards and "called Earl"

Boy did I feel better after that!

That is freakin disgusting mang. That smell gets pretty strong, and couple it with garlic armpits...bleh. I think I will do a preflight smell of my students as the summer continues. :X

[Doug Taylor]

You know, it was bad. Real bad, but generally there was always one that figured out how to score with the American women that'd clue them in on some of our customs about bodily scent.

Eventually we learned the trick: It was the early 1990's and Baywatch was all the rage. So we'd tell them that Pamela Andersen had a thing for men that showered daily and would regularly use deodorant.

And they all wanted to meet Pamela Andersen because she uhh, "lived just up the Capitol Expressway and was known to charter planes out of Nice Air down the street." (NOT true)

It was a little snarky, but it worked and made for a much more pleasant teaching environment.

[JDMcFly]

Pam-ela!

[caliginousface]

Originally Posted by Doug Taylor

You know, it was bad. Real bad, but generally there was always one that figured out how to score with the American women that'd clue them in on some of our customs about bodily scent.

Eventually we learned the trick: It was the early 1990's and Baywatch was all the rage. So we'd tell them that Pamela Andersen had a thing for men that showered daily and would regularly use deodorant.

And they all wanted to meet Pamela Andersen because she uhh, "lived just up the Capitol Expressway and was known to charter planes out of Nice Air down the street." (NOT true)

It was a little snarky, but it worked and made for a much more pleasant teaching environment.

Hahahaha, Nice Air! Man you guys at least should've used TradeWinds (were they around?)...well maybe Nice Air's airplanes weren't so ratty when you were here.

You know what you should've done so the dude didn't feel left out, was tie some garlic sacks to your armpits. That way you'd get used to it as well!