False Stabilization

• The cockpit interior is always stable with respect to your peripheral and focal vision, no matter what the aircraft's movement is.
• This prevents you from perceiving gradual pitch or bank, and you look up from your GPS programming amazed to see a cockeyed world.
• => Keep your head out of the cockpit...
• Related illusion: false motion -- sit inside a turning umbrella.

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