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• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 17-9
  Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Diving or Rolling Beyond the Vertical Plane › Coping with Spatial Disorientation

  Coping with Spatial Disorientation To prevent illusions and their potentially disastrous consequences, pilots can: 1. Understand the causes of these illusions and remain constantly alert for them. Take the opportunity to experience spatial disorientation illusions in a device, such ... Barany chair, a Vertigon, or a Virtual Reality Spatial Disorientation Demonstrator. 2. Always obtain and understand preflight weather briefings. 3. Before flying in marginal visibility (less than 3 miles) or where a visible horizon is not evident, such as flight…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 5-3
  Chapter 5: Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training › Upset Prevention and Recovery › Spatial Disorientation

  Spatial Disorientation Spatial disorientation has been a significant factor in many airplane upset accidents. Accident data from 2008 to 2013 shows nearly 200 accidents associated with spatial disorientation with more than 70% of those being fatal. All pilots are susceptible ... allow the airplane to divert from the desired flightpath because they cannot resolve the conflict. A pilot may experience spatial disorientation or perceive the situation in one of three ways: 1. Recognized spatial disorientation: the pilot recognizes the developing upset…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 17-8
  Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Visual Illusions › Demonstration of Spatial Disorientation

  acceleration forces overpowering gravity. [Figure 17-6] These situations include uncoordinated turns, climbing turns, and turbulence. Demonstration of Spatial Disorientation There are a number of controlled aircraft maneuvers a pilot can perform to experiment with spatial disorientation. While each maneuver ... objectives in demonstrating these various maneuvers. 1. They teach pilots to understand the susceptibility of the human system to spatial disorientation…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 17-6
  Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Treatment of Hypoxia › Spatial Disorientation and Illusions

  Spatial Disorientation and Illusions Spatial disorientation specifically refers to the lack of orientation with regard to the position, attitude, or movement of the airplane in space. The body uses three integrated systems that work together to ascertain orientation and movement…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 8-1-5
  Chapter 8. Medical Facts for Pilots › Section 1. Fitness for Flight › 8-1-5. Illusions in Flight

  Illusions in Flight a. Introduction. Many different illusions can be experienced in flight. Some can lead to spatial disorientation. Others can lead to landing errors. Illusions rank among the most common factors cited as contributing to fatal aircraft accidents ... Illusions Leading to Spatial Disorientation. 1. Various complex motions and forces and certain visual scenes encountered in flight can create illusions of motion and position. Spatial disorientation from these illusions can be prevented only by visual reference to reliable, fixed…

• Instrument Flying Handbookp. 3-8
  Chapter 3: Human Factors › Demonstration of Spatial Disorientation › Diving or Rolling Beyond the Vertical Plane

  recover. The benefit of this exercise is the pilot experiences the disorientation while flying the aircraft. Coping with Spatial Disorientation To prevent illusions and their potentially disastrous consequences, pilots can: 1. Understand the causes of these illusions and remain constantly ... alert for them. Take the opportunity to understand and then experience spatial disorientation illusions in a device, such as a Barany chair, a Vertigon, or a Virtual Reality Spatial Disorientation Demonstrator. 2. Always obtain and understand preflight weather briefings…