If you fly at night or in the conditions of machines, it is important to understand physical illusion and how to overcome it.
What is a graphic illusion?
Physical illusions occur during rapid acceleration and joy on the trip. This illusion usually occurs when there is a limited external vision, and interacts with the senses of the body on the actual airline readings.
While speeding up, your body senses the movement of the stadium, so your natural reaction is to decline. The opposite is true in relation to obedience, as slowing as a movement as a movement to the bottom of your reaction is the retreat of the yoke to the field.
While the illusion can occur during slowdown, one of the most common examples of this illusion is a rapid acceleration during a long period during flying by lower visibility or night conditions.
Imagine that you are flying the instrument of the instrument. When you reach the height of the decision, the runway is not anywhere on the horizon. While adding the ability to turn, you can quickly move from a slow approach to climbing climbing. You look down in the cockpit to change energy, paintings and landing devices. In the back of your mind, You feel you raise more than you needSo you can correct it by decline, all without actually looking at your position indicator. After seconds, it is low, descending towards the ground.
How can your body deceive you in making such a wrong mistake easily? All this is due to how your inner ear works.
Inner ear senses
Sensory information about movement, balance and spatial orientation is provided by the vestibular system and the parts associated with it in and around the ears.
Inside the inner ear, there is a little hair, with your body moving, sensing movement by bending forward and back. As you can see in the graph below, the tilt movements of these hairs during acceleration and obedience are the same when you tend to your head forward or back. For this reason when you accelerate and stop in the plane, your vestibular system tells your mind that you have entered into a false flight position.
the solution
To face the effects of physical illusions, remember checking your devices before responding to the position of the perceived journey, especially during the burden of higher work and reducing vision. Use the scanning style of the tool to keep your plane in a safe flight position, and avoid making large and rapid movements with your head.
What your body tells you to do is not always accurate, and the feeling of physical illusion may feel sometimes. The term “trust your tools” can feel clichés, but it is the best tool you should overcome on this illusion on the plane.
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