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Anyone who's interested can go down to the local small airfield and ask an instructor to show you "unusual attitudes" - he'll have you sit in the seat with your
by bombcar 1y ago
Anyone who's interested can go down to the local small airfield and ask an instructor to show you "unusual attitudes" - he'll have you sit in the seat with your head looking down, do things and then ask you what the plane is doing - then you look up and realize it's doing the exact opposite.
At night with no visible horizon - you do it to yourself.
- WalterBright 1y agoThat's exactly how instrument training is done. The student wears a hood so he can only see the instruments. The instructor puts the airplane in various situations where your senses lie, and the student has to recover. My dad, against orders, carried a piece of pipe with him, to ensure the student would not panic and kill them both. He said he never had to use it.
- wombatpm 1y agoI assume the pipe was to club the student pilot unconscious in order to recover control of the aircraft.
- WalterBright 1y agoyup, thereby saving both of their lives.
- genewitch 1y agoI really was hoping to make a lead pipe cryptanalysis rhyming reference but neither I nor Gemini can make it work, and I don't want to go get my thesaurus and rhyming dictionary to work something out. Lead pipe crash avoidance closest I could get.
- wat10000 1y agoLead pipe for student paralysis.
- WalterBright 1y agoIt wasn't lead. Steel.
- genewitch 1y agoI had paralysis as an option but, imo, a good rhyme would have the same cadence, and adding the "for" or "with" messes up the cadence. "no place like home for the holidays" -> "no plate like chrome for the hollandaise".