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What is inconceivable, even for layperson, is that when in doubt you should always gain altitude, not lose altitude.
by JumpinJack_Cash 4y ago
What is inconceivable, even for layperson, is that when in doubt you should always gain altitude, not lose altitude.
- huslage 4y agoIf you don't know you're going down, you might think you are upside down and going up. Disorientation is a strange thing.
- turrican 4y agoIn addition to what huslage said, there’s something called an aerodynamic stall: in very oversimplified terms, if you go up too steeply without adequate thrust your wings will produce dramatically less lift all at once.
- doctor_eval 4y agoOr even worse, and more likely, just one one side (wing drop). Then you're really doomed. Happened recently on an ATR I think. I did some flying with a hood - no ability to see outside but I could see instruments. It was uncanny, and I got totally disoriented. The only thing that saved me is that as a former sim jockey I was used to flying just on the instruments and I knew it was very unlikely that they went wrong just as I was flying blind. So I focussed on the instruments and ignored the feeling that the plane was literally flying on its side. It is very unsettling.