A New Enemy by Chucky < Submission | Inkbunny, the Furry Art Community

8 years, 11 months ago

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Well, even if you're not usually the kind to get airsick, being worried/stressed/nervous surely boosts the chance, so... poor boy @.@

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ PlaneshifterLair

Being worried and stressed out will DEFINITELY aggravate motion sickness.

ScottySkunk

8 years, 11 months ago

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wow. close call.. Also.. curious if this plane design would work rl

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ ScottySkunk

It probably would, but you wouldn't want to use a canard design(pitch control surfaces in the front) for primary training. There are a few real airplanes that look like this, but they're rather high performance. I used it because I think it's cool and futuristic looking.

RedPanther

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ ScottySkunk

http://www.airvan.com/phfut_en.html It will work

PrysmTKitsune

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ ScottySkunk

yes and no, there are jets that do very much look like this and are poplar with enthusiasts because they are indeed high preformance, some of the beter ones are on par with military jets, but as with any high spec machine its VERY hard to control..truth being told with this design an amature like chuck would have realisticly ramed it into the ground by now
also the exact design is a bit off from the real world versions its as chuck put it desgined to look cool...you can put alot more emphasis on looks in a comic world [especialy a comic worl dwith unstated physical laws...for all we know gravity could be less strong in chuckies world alowing for planes to fly with less effort]

ScottySkunk

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ PrysmTKitsune

ahh. was curious about it. i onow there are planes kinda like it. but its always in the small details over how well it works.

Falscher

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ PrysmTKitsune

I make my jets how I want. Just look at my KSP games! Control Surfaces everywhere!

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ PrysmTKitsune

The one thing I did with this airplane to make it somewhat realistic as a trainer, was give it a large and fully movable canard. This would give the airplane more pitch authority at slower speeds, as opposed to what we see on planes like the Long-EZ,
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=long+ez+plane&... and others, which have fixed canards with a control surface attached. These airplanes have high takeoff and landing speeds, not a quality you'd want in a trainer.

Fraddas

8 years, 11 months ago

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That turbulence is evil, airsick is nastier. I hope Chucky will get another chance on a better day.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Fraddas

Darn right it is, totally barfy!

AJDurai

8 years, 11 months ago

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Poor Chucky. I've never been airsick, but have been on a flight where some one else was. Not a pleasant thing to be around.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ AJDurai

I think it's one of those things that either you're susceptible to it or not. I am, my brother is not, and most other pilots I know aren't. But it is possible to build up a tolerance to it.

AJDurai

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

Yeah I'm able to take to the seas and the air no problem, even that one time we flew through turbulence so bad, I felt like I was in a tumble dryer. That was fun, during dinner.

ThaPig

8 years, 11 months ago

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I'm glad he didn't turn the plane into the Vomit Comet!

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ ThaPig

Ha ha ha.

PrysmTKitsune

8 years, 11 months ago

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i just realized something, youve drawn something here i dont think anyone else has before...the idea of what headphones for anthros would look like...and you made them look realisitic too...its a subtel thing but its a very nice touch

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ PrysmTKitsune

Thanks. :) That took a little bit of, "how would this work?" thought. Although I still cheat with glasses.

Shryke

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

And the color of the headphones.... very aviation-specific! (DC) :)

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Shryke

Glad you noticed!

Themeanmouse

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

Anthro glasses I've seen done several different ways by other artists. Some I have seen done with the 'sports strap' type elastic band being the norm. Other types I've seen are straight arm like you draw but they're actually a springy-clamp type setup that holds itself snugly around the head when worn. Others I've seen have anthros using Pince-nez style glasses.

Kalibran

8 years, 11 months ago

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airsickness is god's way of telling you to pull more Gs

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Kalibran

Good point. I always found it was the negative G's that made me feel bad.

Snowfirechakat

8 years, 11 months ago

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poor guy nervous stressed that's would make any on sick

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Snowfirechakat

Stress and nervousness will absolutely aggravate it.

Snowfirechakat

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

yeah i know that all to well

sedkitty

8 years, 11 months ago

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Poor Chucky. He's got the worst luck. Turbulence and the hrgblrfls. Better luck next time, guy.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ sedkitty

Lol, the hrgblfls, well put.

Tampa

8 years, 11 months ago

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I'm getting the feeling Ian is approaching this a bit wrong. Chucky needs guidance and not practice, he won't stick the landing if Ian just keeps letting him try and try, he needs to calmly aid Chuckys thought process so he gets a feel for it.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Tampa

Ian is still a beginning instructor. So yes, what you are noticing is correct.

Rhysion

8 years, 11 months ago

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I feel bad for him having to contend with more difficult than normal conditions for learning in. It's understandable that those things will happen when you're in the air for real, but they certainly make getting a basic skill that much harder.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Rhysion

I was teaching people to fly in New England back in the early 2000s, and it was one place where the weather never cooperated. And of course I'm putting a lot of emphasis on that into the comic.

ruink

8 years, 11 months ago

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dem G-forces, man

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ ruink

They'll tug at your G-strings.

ruink

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

don't have G-strings

NeksusCat

8 years, 11 months ago

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Poor Chuckster.. He's gonna make it, but the world will spin round and round on his way..

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ NeksusCat

I always found it less of a spinning sensation and more of a stomach churning sensation.

CyberCornEntropic

8 years, 11 months ago

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It's supposed to be hard. This is when all the embarrassing mistakes should be made, when they won't kill anyone. Still, it's a good thing he kept his breakfast down. I daresay it'd be even more embarrassing living with a nickname like "Upchucky". :(

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ CyberCornEntropic

Yeah, that would reverberate through the dorms rather quickly.

CyberCornEntropic

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

Of the varieties of tachyons that exist, rumoron particles are the only ones currently known to be detectable by the living brain. The gray matter primarily uses them to transmit and receive information of a particular emotional type, primarily embarrassing or scandalous rumors, hence the name.

Seriously, though, I understand that a way to help combat nausea of this sort is to massage the webbing between the thumbs and forefingers. Pressing the right spots would calm the disruptive neural impulses, assuming I'm not misremembering things.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ CyberCornEntropic

No, you're thinking right. There are these wristbands you can buy that push on pressure points at your wrist joint. I've been told it works. I never tried it myself.

CyberCornEntropic

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

It's good to know that I'm not talking entirely out of my hat. That it's possible wasn't my worry; Zone Therapy, acupressure, reflexology, and shiatsu massage all use the principle of using pressure on one part of the body to influence the healing of another part. The real question is where those remote "buttons" are to put pressure on and/or massage. It's certainly got to be loads healthier than drugs like Dramamine.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ CyberCornEntropic

The wrist band I'm thinking of uses a pressure point on the inside of your wrist just aft of the joint with your hand. Again,I can't speak from experience, but I've been told it works.

SenGrisane

8 years, 11 months ago

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Poor Chucky. He is cute though when he is all nervous ^^

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ SenGrisane

It gives him a special kind of cuteness huh?

SenGrisane

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

He's always cute :P

Klandagi

8 years, 11 months ago

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Isn't this why flight simulators were invented?

Also, airsickness and turbulence both suck.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Klandagi

Flight simulators are better for procedures traing, although they're getting better all the time. The large level-D simulators the airlines use are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, but those are some serious $$$. Basic skills are best learned by jumping in a small airplane.

Yugabia

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

Those simulators cost about a thousand dollars an hour to run- so as you said, serious money! For large aircraft the Air Force gives you about a 70-100 hours in one before you even touch the jet. But then again, money isn't quite as big a problem for us! But still a lot cheaper than $12,000 an hour for the real thing.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Yugabia

Makes sense with the Air Force training. Jets are so much more procedure oriented you really couldn't just throw someone in.

Yugabia

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

That and the sim is pretty darn good. Of course once you're qualified the simulator is mostly used for emergency procedures. While it can do assault landings (on night vision goggles or unaided) and air refueling, it's not quite perfect. And besides- part of doing them in real life is the, "That KC-135 is really damn close." factor!

FoxyFemme

8 years, 11 months ago

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As if Chucky wasn't feeling bad enough already about his performance today, now he's had to bail because of air sickness. I do hope Ian makes it clear to him that most pilots have difficult days like today, and not to worry about it.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ FoxyFemme

It's hard for a humble person to get humbled even more.

daveb63

8 years, 11 months ago

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At least theoretically, given how motion sickness works - it occurs when your balance centers and vision disagree on how your body is moving - I'd expect the guy in the pilots seat to be the least vulnerable to motion sickness in an aircraft.

car-sickness? usually happens when you're a passenger heads-down in a game or a book. your field of vision doesn't contain anything that isnt moving with your body, so vision says you;re at rest, balance centers say otherwise -> nausea. To avoid it, look out the window. The guy driving usually doesn't get sick because he is always looking at the world outside the car - his vision and balance centers always agree on how his body is moving.

Sea-sickness? Same thing, only more pronounced. If you're inside a boat, everything you see wherever you look is moving with you. Also, at sea there's a distinct lack of visual reference points outside the boat. Even the helmsman can feel it. If you start to, watch the horizon. That's the only thing you can rely on to make your vision and balance centers agree on how you're moving, everything else you can see will be moving with you and make it worse.

Air-sickness? Same as sea-sickness. As an air passenger you've got almost nothing you can "look at" that isn't moving with you. But the horizon is such a major feature for a pilot that its always part of their "mental view", isn't it? Wouldn't somebody flying a plane, as opposed to flying IN a plane be much less vulnerable to it? If they were flying purely on instruments I could see it, but purely VFR? If Chucky is suddenly feeling nauseous while on the stick I'd worry more about concussion from the skull to skull collision that just happened. Which makes the decision to hand off the aircraft a VERY wise one.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ daveb63

I've had motion sickness problems all my life. Sea-sickness was definitely the absolute worst. I always tried the horizon thing too, it worked to a point, but ultimately it was the motion itself that did it. The constant changing of G-foces in an airplane, a windy road or up and down in a car, and the rolling sea in a boat. My only way to combat and get over it was to keep doing it. I eventually got used to it with flying, although really bad turbulence will still get me queasy. And because I got over it with flying, I stopped getting car sick and seem to have more tolerance on boats.

daveb63

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Chucky

As a lifelong sailor (that happens when you grow up on the UK coast) I can sympathize. You most definitely get used to it after a while - a day or two at sea and it's "safe" to go below without feeling like you're going to toss your cookies. You pay for it with a weird staggering walk when you make landfall though, like you're expecting the land to be rolling like the ocean.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ daveb63

Isn't that what they call 'sea legs'?

Yugabia

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ daveb63

Pilots of all stripes run into motion sickness while flying- and if it occurs it usually is in turbulent weather or aerobatics. I've had a few low level flights where towards the end all the pilots were feeling a bit queasy from getting jostled around.

Draggy94123

8 years, 11 months ago

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That plane is bad ass looking

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Draggy94123

Thanks!

Cyandog182

8 years, 11 months ago

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I love these comics when we get to see Chuck flying. I really like the plane designs in this comic. Every time a new page is posted I have the urge to play Pilotwings Resort.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Cyandog182

Awesome dude!

SkyBlueSloth

8 years, 11 months ago

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Chucky levelled up!

Turbulence resist +1
Airsick resist +1

New costume unlocked: Airsick Chucky.

Didn't vom on Ian: +50 bonus exp

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ SkyBlueSloth

Ha ha ha!

KNIFE

8 years, 11 months ago

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Ian may be a young instructor but I feel he's got a natural tolerance and affinity for it.
As for Chucky, I hope he gets over his motion sickness. I myself have never had a problem
with motion sickness of any kind,even when I was very young so I have
no idea what it's like for him. I can only hope that it doesn't wash him out
cause I think he has so much potential.
Also like the others said, he's too cute not to be in SOME kind of story. :D

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ KNIFE

You got it right about Ian, he just needs to learn teaching to different learning styles.

Feryl

8 years, 11 months ago

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I can sympathize with this. I never experienced any form of motion sickness until I took my first VFR exam during HORRENDOUS turbulence & insane downdrafts. I managed to pass, but only barely without hurling my lunch all over the dash.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Feryl

You're a trooper for taking your private checkride on those conditions, congratulations on passing as well.

Spuug

8 years, 11 months ago

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Sounds like a movie title. "Star Wars: A New Enemy".

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ Spuug

It could have worked.

shadycat

8 years, 11 months ago

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Airsickness and seasickness are things I've never had problems with. I have spent a week or so at sea on a smallish boat and then had difficulty navigating dry land, however.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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@ shadycat

You acquired your "sea legs."

graymuzzle

8 years, 11 months ago

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Funny, it usually is worse to be a passenger.

Chucky

8 years, 11 months ago

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