Jon wrote: >When I was taking lessons some twenty >years ago one thing the instructor did was to put a hood on me so I could >only see the instruments. What he did next I am not quite sure, but he was >trying to disorient me. Then he told me to level out and fly to a heading >at an altitude. I should have gotten sick,
Indeed! The number one reason for car or air sickness is that your brain interprets the motion signals from the inner ear and the eyes differently. This is off course especially bad if you don't look out, as the eye only sees static stuff like the panel and the inner ear tells you you are travelling. When I was young, I got car sick. I *had* to look out all the time. My ex boss, who is a pilot himself, did a ride in an acrobatic airplane once. He said his stomach was ok for quite a long time, while he always knew which way was up etc. Then he lost his orientation and his stomach got bad very quickly. From Davids description I think one problem for him was that he did not see the horizon or the earth in general. He looked out in front and saw only the sky or looked at the gauges. Maybe if he would look at the earth more often, that would help. I think the excitement also makes the stomach react worse. >Jon Bye bye, Wolfram. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
