Kenny Keller, a helicopter CFI, addresses motion sickness in early flight training. About 25% of airline pilots experience it sometimes. The fixes: fly more often, look outside, eat light, try ginger or acupressure wristbands, and tell your instructor. Most students get over it.
About 25% of airline pilots.
All right Collective users, today stay strong in your training. This is for a ground school member with a problem like most not really that big of a problem. I'm going to read her question here to you in just a second. Ms. Coffee 3 Number finishes up I really got up today with number one and like man, I don't know what to do Today for day 104 Coffee with Kenny went to the email Boom Helicopter Land Ground School member question Great question about motion sickness and and I when I want your feedback today, I want to know from you viewers, followers, ground school members, I want to hear your opinion, what you think, have you experienced this and what you've done. And I'm going to and I'm going to answer a reader question and give you my opinion. Man, I don't know what I did but comment number three was overflowing. Man, I had to throw a bowl in there. Maybe I made two cups in the same third cup. Could be. And I'll give a little hint here about some of the things going on that I've been teasing. Can't give all the details yet, but from this ground school member she said I'm about 15 hours into my private pilot training and loving it so far, but I'm experiencing motion sickness when circling landing sites, doing high and low recon for off airport landings. My instructor has expressed some real concerns about this and has questioned if I'll be able to complete the training. Have you ever had students who experienced motion sickness and have worked through it? If you have, do you find that they just seem to work through it and get their sea legs or is there anything that has helped? I've done some research online and it sounds like other student pilots have experienced this and worked through it, but I'd appreciate hearing your perspective as a pilot and cfi. Thank you very much for any info you can provide. And she does mention how much she enjoys the HOGS videos by the way. That's right at the beginning I skipped it, but I'm gonna go back and mention that she really enjoys the HOGS training. I am Kenny Keller, creator of Helicopter Land Ground School. You can go below to sign up for a helicopter lane ground school. You can take it for a 24 hour test flight, private commercial instrument or CFI. So back to her question. Yes, over the years I've had students have had a little trouble with motion sickness. I'm still going to give you kind of what I've seen, but I actually did some research. I thought about this morning about what I've seen Over the years. And I also jumped online just to kind of get some other perspective. And I found that they say 25% of airline pilots even experience motion sickness at times. And I was surprised at that, that that number was that high. And the tips I thought of and tips that I saw from other flight instructors and it's give it more time. I think when this instructor at 15 hours is telling her that he's not sure if she can complete the training, I think he's jumping the gun. She's not saying it's in all aspects of the flight. It's just during the circling to land. And I get that. I wonder how much time is she looking inside, how much time is she looking outside? My first guess would be probably focusing too much on instruments. Just a guess, but I think that's probably the case. There's a lot of things you can do. Open up some vents, get some fresh air coming in, try to look more outside. But from what I read and what I believe in my own experience over time, at 15 hours, you're having a little bit of motion sickness. Don't call it quits yet, keep flying. I read about ginger tea has helped people don't eat a big meal right before going to do flight training. Of course your overall day to day health can be a factor. But basically what I read and a lot of people are saying is give it a little more time. That the more comfortable you get in the aircraft and more comfortable you get with your instructor. Of course, talk to him about it just as she did. Again, I think he's jumping the gun, telling her she can't complete the training at 15 hours. I know you're excited when you have 15 hours. I could remember when I had like 2.7 and I was going around telling everybody, oh Yeah, I got 2.7 hours in a helicopter. When you're low time, you're so excited and you're so proud of that. But it is low time and so many of the problems and questions and issues we've been getting in the last couple weeks, man, I still think that so many of them are just people need to get a little more time in the aircraft, sometimes fly more frequently. We all have issues from all kinds of different sources in our training. So I think 15 hours, I think she needs to, you know, do a little research as I did. But I think calming down, getting more comfortable, looking outside more, have some fresh air coming in. I read about some wristbands that are very helpful for some people and it's some type of A nerve thing. I've never used one, but I saw a lot of people mentioning those and they could be picked up over the counter at drugstores and you can actually get them some from some of the online pilot stores sell these wristbands. So I think definitely she needs more time in the aircraft. Calm down, get more comfortable, use some of these tips. Do not give up at 15 hours. God, no. Do not give up. So I've been teasing. Big news. God, I can't let all the cat out of the bag. But check this dude out. Noisy. The way I'm gonna be presenting, the way you've been watching me do it for about the past five years is about to change forever. Big changes. And I just got, as much as I want to tell you about it, I can't. Yeah, I just could. You just got to give me a couple more days for the big reveal day 104 like and subscribe to the channel. Put your comments below about motion sickness. What have you experienced as a student or instructors that want to chime in? What have you done to encourage your students and help them get through that? I know I had a flight medic once, loved the flying. Was flying for years and he gets sick on every flight and I didn't know that for years. And they told me later he pukes in a bag every time he goes up. Not that that's relevant to learning to fly, but I was surprised. A lot of the comments I saw online about people that started their flight training out that had buckets in the aircraft with them airplanes and helicopters. So there was some people that really had a problem and they worked through it. They worked through it with time. Time and experience in the seat people is going to help you more than anything that I can really think of. Your feedback has been amazing. The comments, the emails, going strong at day 104 and I like to say I'm just getting started. So got to get on with the day. Like subscribe, comment down below, let us know about motion sickness, what you think, what you experienced, how you've got over it. We love the feedback. Absolutely. Absolutely incredible. So thank you all as always and we will see you in day 105. Oh yeah, go down below for helicopter, airline, ground school, 24 hour test flight. Not only do we have 24 test flight, we have 100% no hassle money back guarantee. Had that in place for seven years and it truly is no hassle.
