The Federal Aviation Administration says 5% to 10% of all general aviation accidents are blamed on spatial disorientation, and 90% of such incidents are fatal. The study led to brochures and videos called “178 Seconds to Live.”
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In the 1950s, researchers at the University of Illinois put 20 pilots through a simulator and none recovered after flying into bad weather and losing visual cues. The danger of such disorientation has been known for decades. What (your body) is telling you is wrong, and it will kill you.” “As a pilot, you have to train yourself to disregard that. “We learn walking around and driving our cars to rely on our sense of balance, our gut feel,” he said.
Pilot and former Air Force Thunderbirds Commander Richard McSpadden said pilots must train to act against their instincts when they become disoriented. “You don’t know if you’re going up or down of left or right.” “It’s like diving into black water at night and you’re just floating,” said Randy Waldman, a longtime helicopter and airplane flight instructor in Burbank, California. It occurs when the vestibular system - the body’s balancing mechanism in the inner ear - sends the wrong signal to the brain. Spatial disorientation is the inability of a pilot to sense how fast or high they are flying and whether the aircraft is pointed up or down, or banking left or right.
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