[IYAS9YAS]

They need to fly in a C-130 through a line of monsoon thunderstorms to see what can get really exciting.

Been there, done that. Many times out of Davis-Monthan AFB as electronic weapons system crew in the back.

The worst I ever felt in any aircraft was doing a bunch of touch-and-goes in the summer for the flight crew to get their training in. 110 degrees on the ground Even hotter in the aircraft.

The only time I barfed (there are two kinds of people who fly, those who have barfed, and those who will) was when we were flying straight and steady with a bit of up and down wave motion. Felt it coming, finished the flight with no issues. Don't get seasick, either.

[noiseman]

As a (non-current) sailplane pilot, who has also flown many other types of aircraft, I’ve never even gotten close to being motion sick while in flight. As a pilot, you’re usually too focused on all of the things you’re doing for it to affect you. Passengers are another story, though. I had several friends who I took up get pretty queasy just sitting there and watching the horizon spin round and round while circling in thermals. The only effect I ever had, momentarily, was when I was circling in a thermal with a number of other gliders both above and below me. The closest one above me was only a couple hundred feet or so above, so as I was circling in a relatively steep bank I was also glancing straight up from time to time to keep an eye on him. Turning steeply while looking straight up is a bad combination which I discovered when it made me a little dizzy/disoriented for a moment.

As for airline turbulence and screaming passengers, it always amuses me a little. If you really thought aviation was as dangerous as many of these people falsely believe, why would you ever get on airplane? Commercial aviation in the U.S. is incredibly safe. In fact, not only is it the safest form of transportation by far, it could be argued that it is actually one of the safest places, moving or stationary, that you can be, period. While you’re in that airline seat, you’re protected from many other ways that someone can die, from drowning, to car crashes, to falling off ladders, to being attacked by a violent thug (OK, maybe that one is becoming more common in flight, so bad example), etc.

[pfflier]

We were flying ass and trash Kontum to Pleiku. Went weightless more than a few times. And oh yes, I tasted lunch more than once.

You the same guys that flew EC-130s out of NKP?

[Kaiser8408a]

“They need to fly in a C-130 through a line of monsoon thunderstorms to see what can get really exciting.”

Amen brother! Nothing like a C-130 in a tropical storm to get your adrenaline pumping!

[Taxman]

Eat bannanas before you fly: they taste the same coming up as they do going down!