I totally agree...spinning yourself is extreme treatment and utter torture. Not at all necessary after just a few times of not feeling so great. HOWEVER, if you are still getting sick after flying all the time, it does work to help desensitize you IF the problem is that you are sensitive to motion. It will NOT work if the problem is mental, i.e. anxiety, worrying about getting sick every time you fly, etc.

Like I said, it worked for me after no-sh-t puking on 7 of my first 9 rides in T-37s way back when. I tried the wrist band trick and I tried all the advice about what to eat (I personally don't think it matters at all...except if you fly on a very full stomach--that's bad), but if it works for you, then go for it. The only thing that worked for me was spinning.

I would go to the park for "maintenance" spins on the merry go round if I ever had a layoff from the jet (even after I was "over it"), just to keep my inner ear desensitized. The trick is that you have to get someone else to spin the merry go round, since you are on it.

I've seen a LOT of dudes have airsickness problems (I was a USAF T-37 instructor...aerobatics, spins, etc on their first few rides, all in the Mississippi heat). It's was never fun for a dude to bring back a bag of pride after an incident and march past all your buddies with it on the way to the trash can, but every one of them got over it. Some had to go extreme and spin. Most got over it just by keeping flying day after day. The ones that got over it the fastest were the ones that figured out that it wasn't a big deal, that it happened to a lot of dudes, and they stopped worrying about it. Eventually, they landed from a sortie and realized that they didn't get sick and hadn't even thought about it the whole flight. Then they were typically good to go from then on.

One other important piece of advice to anyone having this problem...dudes tend to look inside the airplane when they are feeling sick...at the instrument panel or something else that isn't moving. This is exactly the wrong thing to do. You have to look outside at the horizon and try to get what your eyes are telling your brain is going on to match what your inner ears are telling it. Look forward and keep your eyes on the horizon, while minimizing movements of your head.