On 10 Jun, 18:41, wrote:
On Jun 10, 1:33 pm, Mxsmanic wrote:



I can't find 61-104; do you have a pointer to it?

Can't successfully Google anymore? Suicide watch for you.

I can't find it either.

Regarding head movements, I am pretty sure that
I recall being told that military fighter pilots were
taught that turning their head and tilting it down
at the same time could result in dissorientation
- as in say moving from looking straight ahead to
looking towards a hip.

In the small amount of flying that I did
I think that it was strictly expected that
the head should be kept pretty much still
with respect to the airframe unless perhaps
looking at something inside the cockpit. I
am pretty certain that no side to side tilting
was allowed on pain of a rap on the back of
the head: -)

I would certainly fancy sticking to that
since it avoids the problem of what to
do when you run out of neck travel.
In some aircraft there will not be
room to move the head much.

Will watch the next Red Bull races
to see what happens there. My betting is that
the head stays with the airframe.

I have fairly recently started motorcycling
and I was not taught anything about head
movement however I have found that it
seems to help my visual perception
(depth perception?) if I keep my eyes
horizontal (wrt the horizon:-). My natural
action is to lean my head with the bike.