Sensory illusions: ‘178 seconds to live’

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Sensory illusions: ‘178 seconds to live’

June 26, 2019 By Keira Hyatt
AOPA STUDENT PILOT editor, NICHOLAS CHRISTIE explains how being unprepared for spatial disorientation in flight, can lead to potentially dangerous consequences.
Human senses are, naturally, designed for everyday life on the ground. And as a result, adapting our ground-based senses in flight is a complex area, fraught with dangerous ...This content...

Human senses are, naturally, designed for everyday life on the ground. And as a result, adapting our ground-based senses in flight is a complex area, fraught with dangerous ...

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AOPA Pilot Editor at Large Dave Hirschman joined AOPA in 2008. He has an airline transport pilot certificate and instrument and multiengine flight instructor certificates. Dave flies vintage, historical, and Experimental airplanes and specializes in tailwheel and aerobatic instruction.

Topic: Flight Training, Safety and Survival

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