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Yes, you can tell when you are turning, etc to an extent. Part of
training requires that you close your eyes, get disoriented, and then recover the aircraft. Most of use rarely actually get disoriented in those tests. However, that is for a short period of time. If you closed your eyes for several minutes you would certainly lose you ability to tell if you were turning or not. -Robert |
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![]() "Robert M. Gary" wrote in message ups.com... Yes, you can tell when you are turning, etc to an extent. Part of training requires that you close your eyes, get disoriented, and then recover the aircraft. Most of use rarely actually get disoriented in those tests. However, that is for a short period of time. If you closed your eyes for several minutes you would certainly lose you ability to tell if you were turning or not. -Robert Years ago, 26 to be exact, when I first got my PPL I went to an FAA safety seminar which are rarely held locally, I'm the youngest person there by at least 15 years. They have the spinning chair (with a joy stick) where they sit you down, blind fold you and spin you. Your job is to move the stick like it is controlling what you are feeling. The old guys laughed as I was the first and sure enough I steered left when I was either not spinning at all or was spinning the other way. One of the old guys who laughed especially hard was next in the chair and when it was stopped he moved the stick to the right and then the FAA guy said something to him and he turned his head and then he started pulling back on the stick like he was climbing. Being a pilot of many 1000 hours he new this could not be the case so he pushed the stick forward. Laughs were had by all except for the guy in the chair. |
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