do you still get vertigo ?

[tathepilot]

im wondering if many here still get vertigo..?

does one become less susceptible with time ?

how do people here cope when it feels like you are upside down ??

 

[firstthird]

1. yes

2. yes

3. not sure I've ever had it that bad but you learn to trust you instruments and your inner ear gradually adjusts to what your brain is telling it is straight and level.

I suspect it happens less often the more experience a pilot gets but it still happens sometimes. If you are multi-piloted when you get it bad, you can simply ask the other guy to take the controls until it passes.

There are also some things to do to prevent getting it, like not looking down to the side then back to the front very quickly, the fluid in your ear gets all sloshed around and your vestibular system gets confused.

If you're still in flight training talk to your instructor, I'm sure they have some good experience/advice or can find someone/somewhere that does.

Bottom line, it is normal, it will get better, but it is always a possiblity. Thus the importance of learning to trust your instruments (but watch out for those inop flags too)

 

[tathepilot]

ok, i was wondering about the susceptibility thing... cause today i got some killer vertigo, and i was wondering if this will ever get better...
about 3 minutes after level off, i was back..

wx was 020ovc

 

[minitour]

I get the leans pretty bad with students in actual...just gotta deal with it.

-mini

 

[Thedude]

The more you fly in actual IFR the less it becomes. I find that if I havent flown for a couple of months in IMC, I will get a touch of it

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

If u get vertigo, just look at the AI and KEEP IT LEVEL! No matter what, focus on that thing and keep it right side up.

I've had pilots tell me "I have vertigo, you've got it!" Well, great, but what if I ALSO get vertigo? Are we going to give up and crash?

Who cares if you have vertigo, keep it right side up, and keep flying the plane.

cliff
YIP

 

[tathepilot]

ok, i was wondering about the susceptibility thing... cause today i got some killer vertigo, and i was wondering if this will ever get better...
about 3 minutes after level off, i was back..

wx was 020ovc

i meant to write 002 ovc

 

[tathepilot]

Hi!

Who cares if you have vertigo, keep it right side up, and keep flying the plane.

cliff
YIP

yes, keep flying that's the key.. im just trying to understand as much as i can about vertigo, cause vertigo always seems to amaze me... there will be times when i take off at night into a low overcast and ill be fine.. no problems..

but than there will be the times when that *hit shows its ugly face..

i have no choice but to fly, cause i fly single pilot stuff...

 

[unreal]

Funny as it sounds, I actually seem to get vertigo less when I can't see anything outside. You can put me under a hood or in actual, and I won't get the leans too easily.

What really gets me good though is when I'm doing a night instrument training flight in VMC with a student. The student is under the hood of course, but I'm going back and forth from looking outside (for traffic/terrain) to looking at the instrument panel. That can cause a bit of a coriolis illusion if you're facing away from the city lights, which can be significant as there is a whole lot of nothing out here at night where I teach. Add that in with a little false horizon illusion from a highway or faint mountain range in the distance, and you've got a good case of vertigo. There have been times where I've had to stay on the gauges with my student for a short time while I got my own gyros untumbled.

 

[MissKittyKat]

hum interesting, as an f/a sitting in the cockpit after ( ok say a 20 hour duty day) and it's an empty flight, I sit up front to see what's happening, all quiet. smooth and a grease landing) I don't get vertigo. I get off the plane still feel like I'm descending? And this goes on until the next day! I have never felt like I'm upside down