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On Jan 17, 11:07 pm, Airbus wrote:
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On Jan 17, 8:57 am, Airbus wrote:

Disorientation can be accompanied by coriolis effect, or not. When you
lose visual reference to the horizon, and your physical sensations give
you misleading information about your situation, this is disorientation.

"Coriolis" when used in Aviation refers to the earth's rotational
affect on air masses:

Better research would have rendered you reply so much more convincing . . .

http://www.answers.com/topic/artific...cat=technology

http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/sa17.pdf

http://www.yorku.ca/harris/pubs/coriolis.pdf

Thanks for the reminder, however snidely proffered.

You're right - I apologize.
This discussion came up here maybe a year or so ago, and someone who was pretty
well informed used the term. I was tempted to reply in the way you did, but I
checked first, and found out I still had much to learn.