My girlfriend is also prone to airsickness. The first time I took her flying, we went for a nice easy flight over the Knik glacier. On the way out, she pronounced that she wasn't feeling so well. So I pushed the throttle in a bit further and headed home, as I didn't have any baggies in the plane. On final, 10 seconds from landing, she started blowing chunks all in my flight bag, the floor, and even the windshield. I recall flaring and basically closing the eye closest to her so I didn't get puke in it. LOL. I remember the smell being so bad that I had trouble speaking to the tower for taxi instructions.

Lessons learned?
- Always bring the big zip-lock bags.
- Don't forward slip to land with a sick passenger. (Yeah, my fault she puked)

I got pretty lucky; my wife and kids don’t get airsick or at least not yet. I’m the one with the weak stomach so I’ve been following this thread with interest.

On our last flight my 3y/o kept asking to do “up and downs” which we did till I got queasy. Everyone else was giggling with enjoyment. My youngest also throughly enjoys hearing herself in the headset...actually all the kids do[emoji51] I’m forever grateful for ISO...

CompSciAndFly wrote: - Always bring the big zip-lock bags.

Maybe keep a few loaded with whatever that stuff is in a baby diaper. It'll stabilize the nasty juice, and you never know when you might need a piss bag in flight.

Offshore yacht racing in all weather has had us try everything! Here is our best success for passengers:

1. Stugeron (mail order from England) 15 mg taken ideally half hour to 1 hour before . Doesn't make you drousy or dry you out. We never leave on a trip without this and my wife insists on it before flying as she otherwise quickly gets sick!

2. Trans-derm Scopalamine patch: works for most, but can have side effects. Make sure to wash hands after applying so you don't get any in your eye.

3. Wrist bands: have seen incredible results on children, even after they have gotten sick.

My SO has an incredibly weak stomach--she can get sick walking around the house, I think. I've never noticed it in a car ride, but in the airplane or in the boat, she'd get miserable in short order. She also has an aversion to meds of any kind. So we first tried the Davis pressure wrist bands, with zero benefits.

About that time, I received an ad from Aeromedix about the Relief Band, so I contacted Brent Blue, the doc that owns Aeromedix, and asked him to explain how and why the Relief Band works. He explained that it was first developed to help pregnant women with severe morning sickness and cancer patients suffering nausea from chemo-therapy. It works by sending a slight jolt of electricity up the medial nerve (I think that's what he called it), and for some reason that I can't recall, that tends to short circuit the nausea reflex. So I decided to gamble $100 and got one for her, as we had a boat charter in the PNW planned for the coming summer.

The boat we chartered was a 32' Nordic Tug, a very capable rough water boat, although neither of us wanted to test its mettle. We left Anacortes, WA, on a nice calm day, and for most of the week, the water was pretty decent. She wore the Relief Band daily, adjusted to its lowest setting, although one morning she decided not to--and very soon put it on. On the second to last day out, though, we were crossing from Lopez Island to Deception Pass destined for La Conner, and the water was kicking up--a pretty fair wind was blowing. Soon we were in 6-7' waves, with water crashing over the bow so that I had the wipers going constantly. I glanced over at her and saw that she was turning up the Relief Band to one of the higher settings. "How you doing?" "GREAT! This is fun!" I was really amazed.

Bottom line, the Relief Band really worked for her. Since that first charter, we've done it 2 more times, and each time, she's been fine, so long as she wears the Relief Band. We haven't encountered quite as rough water on the other times, but not smooth, either.

Another positive about the Relief Band is that unlike anti-nausea drugs, it can be used by pilots. Although I've only had a couple of instances of nausea while flying over these almost 47 years, I've known pilots who do have nausea issues. There is a great likelihood that this would help them. Definitely worth trying.

Cary