Illusions in Flight - ICEFLAGS Flashcards

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Inversion - Climb to level flight - fell like tumbling backwards

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Coriolis Illusion - Quick head movement during constant rate turn - inner ear - disorient pilot

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Elevator Illusion - Updraft - extreme vertical acceleration - nose down aircraft

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False horizon - night lights, stars, boats on water create a false horizon

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Leans - Quick correction from bank altitude too slowly - feel like bank in opposite direction - inner ear fluid

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Autokinesis - at night stationary light will be moving

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Graveyard Spin/Spiral - Lost altitude sensory system makes you feel in level flight - so you pitch back - actually in turn- will tighten turn and losing altitude - keep pulling back and losing altitude

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Somoatogravic Illusion- Rapid takeoff - feel like you are climbing, rapid deceleration - fell like you are descending

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