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Feeling aircraft sensations
Wanted to ask how easy or natural it gets for pilots to perceive
aircraft positions and movements without actually looking at the respective indicators. I've been in the flight deck only once, and confess that I had very little physical sensation to give me an idea of the 0.7 Mach or whatever that the A320's airspeed indicator was showing. In fact, at the end of the journey, there was little to suggest the speeds we were actually traveling at. Also, nearly throughout the 4-hour flight, the heading was different from the direction of travel, but I didn't feel that wind correction angle. I'm not sure whether or not the landing was a x-wind, which tells you that that went imperceived too. The only thing I could tell at all was the slightly pitch-up nose attitude throughout, though I couldn't assess the angle. Was I just me that was dumb or has anyone else not physically felt these sensations at the first go? Ramapriya |
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