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On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 11:54:33 AM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
On 11/4/2015 6:16 PM, Christopher Giacomo wrote: While I have zero time under the hood, i have no doubt that an ARHS would have significantly changed my plan for the flight How would an AHRS change your plan?* I'm not trying to add fuel to the fire, but please consider that nothing you can practice on a computer can prepare you for actual IMC flight.* Take a look at this and understand that the sensations generated by your vestibular system will likely be too powerful to resist without proper training and experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor...ns_in_aviation And here's a youtube video showing two trained and experienced military pilots who suffer spatial disorientation.* One of them doesn't survive... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAaeBE7uSzY There seems to be too many people who think that simply having an instrument will save their bacon when the chips are down.* You might get lucky if you make a controlled entry into IMC, but don't bet your life on it.* Being suddenly enveloped when a hole closes around you is another story.* Once you were in the soup you made the right choice to jump.* My only critique of your decision to jump was that I thought you waited too long. -- Dan, 5J Dan, I think you misinterpreted what i meant by "changing my plan." While i intend to put an AHRS in my next ship and was planning on installing one in the HP, the purpose was to ensure i was at least wings level while doing some sort of benign spiral over more level terrain, and not to get myself out of the sort of situation i found myself in. If i had an AHRS at my disposal, i believe that i probably would have foolishly attempted to use it in order to fly down the valley, rather than tell myself that i cannot trust my senses and eventually bail out. I am in no way comfortable in any form of IMC, whether it be in a single Cu or in a solid deck. While an AHRS can be a very valuable tool to have in the cockpit, like any other tool, you need to understand both its limitations and your own abilities to effectively utilize it. I plan to work towards developing a far lower cost option for "Get-down" ARHS units, but in no way take the notion of inadvertent flight in IMC lightly... my training told me to jump when that happens, and that's why i did exactly that. Chris |
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