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So your on short final for 25L at PHX. Your at DH and your copilot pukes.

What do you do?

This actually happened to me today (copilot was my 8 year old daughter).

Not sure what the right answer would be for sim training, but I went ahead and landed the airplane.
 
I'd say you made the right decision:)

IMC? Bumpy? Daughter doesn't fly much?
 
Remember, it's "aviate, navigate, then regurgitate" in that order.

So landing the plane is the right option.
 
fiveoboy01 said:
IMC? Bumpy? Daughter doesn't fly much?
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Not a whole lot of IMC. Maybe .2 for the 2hr flight from Santa Fe, but it was a bit bumby. Not the choppy bumpy, but the up/down draft kind of stuff. And it was the last leg of a long day. We started out leaving St Louis at 0900 CDT and arrived in Phoenix at 4pm AZ time.

It was just a bit too much for her. But she felt a lot better afterwards.
 
If I was flying to minimums and all I could see was the "rabbit," I might go around. If I'm broken out with 12000 feet of visible runway in front and the landing looks good, I'm landing.
 
Fearless Tower said:
So your on short final for 25L at PHX. Your at DH and your copilot pukes.

What do you do?

This actually happened to me today (copilot was my 8 year old daughter).

Not sure what the right answer would be for sim training, but I went ahead and landed the airplane.
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:D

This exact scenario happened to me except my co-pilot (my son who was about the same age at the time) puked on ME! He was trying to get my attention and had disconnected his headset unknown to me. When he barfed his head was pointed in my direction...

What could I do? Nothing else than to fly the plane and ignore the vomit dripping off me.:D

Oh, and this was my first long XC with the family after getting my PPL. This was on short final coming into Sante Fe.
 
Sounds like you did the right thing. Sick sacs are your best friend. I always try to have a few if in flying with people even on calm days.
 
Don't hurl, because if you hurl, and I catch a whiff of it, man, I'm gonna spew, all right? And if I blow chunks, chances are someone else is gonna honk, all right?
 
Land and then b--ch slap his arse! ;):)
 
EdFred said:
Don't hurl, because if you hurl, and I catch a whiff of it, man, I'm gonna spew, all right? And if I blow chunks, chances are someone else is gonna honk, all right?
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Maybe I should add this to the Approach briefing!
 
Bust out a zero G or two....I mean, she already puked, right ?
 
EdFred said:
Don't hurl, because if you hurl, and I catch a whiff of it, man, I'm gonna spew, all right? And if I blow chunks, chances are someone else is gonna honk, all right?
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And if that happens it could set off a peristaltic chain reaction!
 
I have both the usual barf bags and a couple of regular plastic shopping bags on board behind the seats and in the front pouch. PAX briefing includes where the puke sacs are located, the one knob they can touch (their air control), seat belts and how to egress the plane. Unless in a negative G like Mike's video above, I see no reason for vomit to be anywhere except in the barf bag:eek:.
 
Fearless Tower said:
So your on short final for 25L at PHX. Your at DH and your copilot pukes.

What do you do?

This actually happened to me today (copilot was my 8 year old daughter).

Not sure what the right answer would be for sim training, but I went ahead and landed the airplane.
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This nearly happened to me a while back. I had my brother and two of my kids in the backseat of a 172 I rent. I was on final for 22R at KCHD. I put the plane down beautifully, and a few seconds after landing, I felt vomit splash on the back of my neck and project onto the instrument panel. Unbeknownst to me, my daughter was feeling queezy and had her hands over her mouth trying to keep the vomit in. She didn't say anything to me because she actually listed to the preflight briefing and knew there was nothing, I, or anyone else in the plane, could do at that moment. Her hands covering her mouth created a high pressure projectile situation causing the vomit to fly from the back seat of the 172 where she was sitting to my neck and the instrument panel.

It was a fun day!
 
depends. did you have the runway in sight, if not you must perform a missed approach........

bob
 
Wife did that to me on a trip to see visit her mom a few years ago. On a ILS 26 into Martinsburg WV. Their were a few chops and the next thing I knew she was filling her jacket with her lunch...:eek: It was VFR so the landing was uneventful. Can't say the same for her jacket...:eek::eek::eek:
 
Hope it was a smooth landing ,so that you didn't exasperate the situation.Good job
 
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