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On Jan 16, 9:50 am, kontiki wrote:

I have never experienced disorientation while flying in VFR
conditions... ever. That's what I assumed he was talking about.

Try this next time you're in solid VFR (with a safety pilot or CFI) --
cover the gauges, close your eyes, bend all the way forward (as though
trying to find a pen on the floor) and then quickly look up as the
safety pilot turns or does another maneuver.

Your body's sensory information will be misleading, and only reliance
on a compensating sensor (in VFR conditions, it will be sight) can
overcome the strong desire to "get back upright."

Hell, I can do that crawling under a desk trying to pick
up a pen I dropped... and then bump my head on it on the
way back up. heheh

That's disorientation.

Oh. Thanks. Sounds like a good trick to use on a student
when you are teaching unusual attitude recovery.