Airsickness During Naval Flight Officer Training: Advanced Squadron VT86-AJN.
Abstract
This report is the second in a series dealing with a longitudinal study of airsickness in the Basic, Advanced, and Fleet Readiness Squadrons comprising the Naval Flight Officer training program. Flight data from 1,833 hops flown by 134 VT86-AJN students being trained for various weapon operation and navigation duties in attack and antisubmarine warfare aircraft indicate that approximately 55 percent of the students reported being airsick on one or more flights, 28 percent reported vomiting on one or more flights, and 30 percent considered their flight performance to have been degraded by airsickness on one or more hops. Of the total number of hops flown, airsickness, vomiting, and performance degradation were reported to have occurred on 8.6, 3.7, and 3.4 percent, respectively, of the flights. The report details the flight data by hops and by students and also relates the airsickness performance of the student group to performance on a selected battery of motion reactivity tests administered to a large segment of the squadron population prior to beginning flight training. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 06, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA088105
Entities
People
- Fred E. Guedry Jr.
- Garry L. Holtzman
- J. M. Lentz
- Patrick F. O'connell
- W. C. Hixson
Organizations
- Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory