Pretty certain this isn't an urban legend. I was stationed at Hahn in 1983, the first base in USAFE to get the F-16, and it was related to the troops by a Gener

Pretty certain this isn't an urban legend. I was stationed at Hahn in 1983, the first base in USAFE to get the F-16, and it was related to the troops by a General Dynamics technical guy. This was found in the simulator during testing, and the pilot had flown south of the equator and the plane inverted. He said "Huh, that's strange." and flew back into the northern hemisphere, and the plane corrected itself. Would the speed of the inversion have killed a pilot? That wasn't mentioned, but given that humans have different G tolerances depending on the direction ... maybe.