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The whole point is that the earbuds won't seem to have a life all their own. They'll continue to point straight to the floor of the plane, no matter what the wi
by brianberns 14y ago
The whole point is that the earbuds won't seem to have a life all their own. They'll continue to point straight to the floor of the plane, no matter what the wings are doing relative to the earth out the window.
- noonespecial 14y agoYou would think that, but in practice the effect is weird. You want them to point at the ground outside your window. When they don't its very strange. I guess its why the people in the plane lean into the bank even when they should be feeling it to be unnecessary. Edit: On thinking about it, it might be double strange because you're "feeling" the bank from what you see outside and feeling the accelerations/decelerations (which may or may not match the plane's pitch which you also get from sight) that big planes do as they fly their patterns. These run together in your brain. It sometimes responds to pitch seen outside, sometimes to acceleration you feel, but never to the roll you expect from what you see. So it seems oddly, randomly broken.
- pedrocr 14y agoI don't think that's the case when you are rolling in and out of the bank, only when you are in a stable banked turn (or flying level). So you'll actually see them move left and right measuring the rate of roll of the airplane.