How to Crash Confidently
Table of Contents
How to Crash Confidently
Who is this guy?
The Textbook for this Course
Technical Credits
What is an Illusion?
Principles
Why technical details are important.
Types of Illusions Important to Pilots
Accidents of Thinking (Frank Caron, Technical Soaring, V13 #3 71-75, July, 1999)
Spatial Disorientation: Important in VFR flight
Some accidents happen because of how we're designed.
Features of the VestibularOrgans
The Vestibule
Functions of Sensation
Vestibular Illusions: Why Kennedy Crashed
Visual Illusions: The Key to Bad Approaches
Illusions Are Errors that we don't know we're making
Shape and Size Constancy
Runways of Different Width
Aerial Perspective
False Horizon
Absent or Obscured Cues
The Black Hole Approach
Black Hole Approach 2
Vection Illusions False-Motion Illusion
False Stabilization
Vestibular Illusions, Reprise
The Key to Vestibular Illusions: Sub-threshold movement
Otolith Anatomy
Otolith Function
Otolith Illusions Illusions related to gravity, tilt, and acceleration
Somatogravic Illusions Soma = body gravitas = weight
Oculogravic Illusions oculos = eye
The Elevator Illusion
G-excess Effect
The Inversion Illusion Sub-Gravity Sensations
SemiCircular Canal Illusions
Semicircular Canal Function
Somatogyral Illusions
Graveyard Spiral
Oculogyral Illusions
Coriolis Illusions
Coriolis Illusion Snags Glider Pilot
Coriolis Illusion Bites Jet Pilot
What to take Home?
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