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- Jul 3, 2014
DH has severe motion sickness. Like, the worst of anyone I've ever known. He can't ride Star Tours at all. He decided to try MF:SR during the AP preview just to try it once. He was a gunner, and the pilots were both excellent. Therefore, he felt relatively fine after riding. We were so surprised! He decided to ride again, and hopefully get another position. Unfortunately he was a gunner again. However this time, one of the pilots was a very little girl who couldn't reach all of the controls. She also didn't understand what she had to do as well. It made for a VERY bumpy ride..... Dh was very sick after riding. My question, is whether you think he can ask to be pilot on a future trip. It's only because of his motion sickness. He says that he won't ride again unless he can be pilot and thus have some control over the bumpiness of the ride. The ride with the little girl as a pilot really did him in. Thanks for your thoughts!
I can’t really answer your question, but FWIW, I can’t ride things like Star Tours either. The first time I rode MFSR I was the engineer and that was fine for me - I could focus on pressing the buttons or look at something else if needed. The second time I rode, I was the left pilot - I felt like I needed to keep my eyes on the screen the whole time to not mess up and never had the chance to “look away” to right myself, motion wise. Well, that ride = blue milk status for me for a few hours afterwards. I may be the only one around here who actually wants to be the engineer in the future!
My 9-year old was the right pilot and he wasn’t all that great at it - wondering if that had something to do with it too given your DH’s experience.
Big caveat that I’m definitely on the more sensitive side of things when it comes to motion sickness on simulator type rides, so YMMV!