Vomit incidents...

[lawrocket 3]

I'm not talking after the beer light goes on.

I recall once at Elsinore, some gal on a tandem let loose with vomit at about 100 feet over the packing area. Fortunately, the packing area was covered.


Let's hear some vomit stories...

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[weegegirl 2]

One of our tandem masters got puked on under canopy last year. It was bad. Very very very bad. He was drenched.

Ok. Just thinking about that makes me ill.

[ianmdrennan 2]

Last year one of our tandem masters got puked on...after she (the student) said she felt she was going to hurl. He told her to turn her head to the side. Before she did (as he was talking) she barfed. He got some in his mouth, landed and threw up all over the place too.

Was very, very funny to see. Not so funny if you were the tandem master

Blue ones,
Ian

Performance Designs Factory Team

[skydiver30960 0]

It's almost always the tandems, and it's always under canopy not in freefall. I've made some big improvements in how I put on the harness, and was doing really well, and finally had my first student pukejob in the landing area a couple weeks ago.

Damn, that's beer.

Elvisio "caesar vomitus" Rodriguez

[jdhill 0]

After a night of heavy drinking at a boggie, Chili Party at Archway I think, on the first load of the following morning someone was felling a little quezy... then puked in their helmet... not wanting it to stik up the whole plane the helmet was passed to the guy sitting by the door, who then opened the door and tried to empty the helmet into the wind... you can guess what happend... it all blew right back in the door and covered the guy... a few more people almost lost it when that happend...

Most of the students around here tend to wait 'til they are on the ground... may be because we tell them that their instructor is a sympathy puker...

J

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

[cloud_monkey 0]

Kevlar got yacked on by a student at 2000ft. Poor bastard got down and there was a perfect outline of the tandem student's back on his jumpsuit, not to mention the crap that stuck in that long ass hair of his..... SHUT DOWN....GOTTA SHUT DOWN SO K CAN HIT THE SHOWER

[happythoughts 0]

My fav happened about 2 weeks ago. A group of kids out to do tandems. After the briefing, one guy was talking to his buddy, "Yeah, it's no big deal. I've got a lot of friends who say it's easier than a Disney ride."

Shall we guess who barfed and then stood in the landing area leaning over and spitting? Mr. Too Cool

[AggieDave 6]

I had a tandem student that told me (after he asked to do spirals) that he gets motion sickness and he was going to throw up. Dumbass.

He puked between his legs, I knew it was coming so we were over a field and I had lifted my legs WAY up, so none on me, none on the gear, just all over his legs. Serves him right, he should have known and told me (I even ask my students on the ground about motion sicknetss), but he told me he had no problems with it.

Asshole.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Nightingale 0]

I felt nauseous on my first tandem, but didn't puke.

John did a bunch of spirals, straightened out and asked "was that fun?" I said "yep!" he said "want more spins?" I said "nope!" he chuckled a bit, asked if I was feeling sick, and I said yes, a little, just no more spins please and I'll be fine, and I was.

[dixieskydiver 0]

One of the tandem instructors I know tells the students they feel better if they breathe under their shirt (aka the puke goes in their shirt). Another not only got puked on but the girl's sinus's started flowing and he got snot all over his face. Poor Adam

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[AggieDave 6]

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One of the tandem instructors I know tells the students they feel better if they breathe under their shirt (aka the puke goes in their shirt)

I have to remember that one! Mean, but I for one do not like having puke on me. I don't like my puke, much less anyone elses puke on me.

If I have a student filling ill, I usually slow the "ride" way down, flying very gently, having them take deep breaths and trying to relax. If I have "I am about to puke" I think I'll have to tell them that shirt thing. Sure its mean, but I don't get paid enough and as much as I love doing tandems, I don't love it enough to get puked on!!!!

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[flypunk 0]

I had a student who wanted to do turns, and even told me he had no motion sickness problems and loved rollercoasters. I took em for some spirals, and sure enough later on he went silent and I felt him start to (slightly) convulse, luckily we were high enough for me to tell him to turn his head and put us in a turn, so it went straight down, no splash on anyone. Thank god for people who don't eat breakfast.

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[dgskydive 0]

Some Country rdio personality came out for a Tandem years ago. He was all miked up for the jump and was ready to go. No worries in the plane and no worries in freefall. Then came the canopy ride. We where all sitting next to the bad spot truck listening to him under canopy as they came down. One of his coworkers on the air asked him exactlyhow he felt. He tried to say he "I FEEL GREAT! But just about the time he got the G out of his mouth he proceded to puke on himself, his mic and the Tandem Master. We laughed and laughed for hours abou that one.
The real funny thing was that for the next few weeks they played the audio over and over on the radio.

"I FEEL G..... G.... GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! "

Dom

[Nightingale 0]

LOL who was it and who was the TM?

[piisfish 140]

several times I saw tandem passenger puke...
Last time, the passenger had the toggles and turned till he vomited

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[livendive 8]

It's been a couple years, but I've had three tandem students puke under canopy. What's funny is the two who were making their first jumps gave me enough warning to say "turn your head to the right!!" and then hide behind their left side so I came up clean once and got a little on my wrist once. Then I took a buddy's girlfriend up for like her 15th tandem (his rating was lapsed), and that's the only time I ever got covered. She said "umm...Dave I don't ...hhuuuaaggghhh!)

The funniest puker I've seen though was while I was on the ground ready to help catch a tandem. The student waited till about 100 feet and then let loose...*right* over the top of his wife & kids. LOL I remember thinking "Jeezus, nice spot!"

EVERY tandem student I've seen puke was on a hot day (95 or better). I think it has something to do with how uncomfortable the ride up is in a packed Cessna but I don't really know. Here's hoping for another clean July/August!

Blues,
Dave

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[freeflygoddess 0]

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It's almost always the tandems, and it's always under canopy not in freefall.

Ok so I have to admit this. I was a test passenger for a guy getting his tandem rateing out at Coolidge, and I have to say for some strange reason I got so completly sick under canopy, I didn't puke, but I really could have. I have never been sick jumping myself, so it was very strange, but I think that alot had to do not being in controll. I get that way in the car, if I am not driving I get really car sick.

[AirMail 0]

Maybe I can get TomSpoon to post his puke video somewhere. It was a Tandem he was videoing. Very funny video.

I'll PM him.

P-

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[piisfish 140]

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It's almost always the tandems, and it's always under canopy not in freefall.

I saw a video (with camera on the hand of the TM) where you see the passenger turning his head (camera side) and throw up...

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[ChasingBlueSky 0]

Seen a few tandems puke - all under canopy, and most under the old Vector rigs...don't think I've seen one since we moved to Sigma. One TM managed to have the student turn her head as he banked the canopy and missed him and the rig.

Supposedly there is a video of Johnny Utah doing a tandem where he is geeking the camera with his mouth open...he looked over the shoulder of the student to see how she was doing just as she turns her head to the side and pukes in freefall....only to have some of the puke go right into his mouth!

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[Lolie 0]

Hm... there's a poster here that I know can mark the "I've been vomited on" box. Sorry, Karla!!! (Guess which box I checked? )

Wasn't during a tandem though--rather in the plane after about 100 jumps and one rough night...

-Miranda
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it will become you;and if you are glad / whatever's living will yourself become.

[diablopilot 2]

Where's the multiple answers?



I find when the student asks on the ground "Have you ever had someone puke on you?" It's a great time to suddenly come up lame, or realize that this is actualy someone elses student.

Under canopy if I've got a sick one, we settle things down and I'll tell them to look out on the horizon. If that doesn't work, I tell em the smell of puke makes me puke, and since I have to watch where I'm going they might end up with it in their hair.

If that doesn't work I can always threaten to pee on their back.














JUST KIDDING! Sheesh!

If they do puke I just have them look at their shoes and then it ends up on the front of their jumpsuit, not on me!

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[cderham 0]

Had a buddy after a long night at WFFC exit last out of the Casa on his back and let it go. Also seen him later that week walk to the tailgate of the Casa lay down and let it fly.

Chris

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