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Head orientation in turns--how is it taught for aviation?
When you make a coordinated turn in an aircraft, are you taught to let your
head tilt with the bank angle of the aircraft, or are you taught to keep your head normal to the horizon? |
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Head orientation in turns--how is it taught for aviation?
Mxsmanic wrote
When you make a coordinated turn in an aircraft, are you taught to let your head tilt with the bank angle of the aircraft, or are you taught to keep your head normal to the horizon? Head and body should remain perpendicular to the floor of the cockpit. This comes naturally if the turn is coordinated. Bob Moore |
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Head orientation in turns--how is it taught for aviation?
"Bob Moore" wrote in message 46.128... Head and body should remain perpendicular to the floor of the cockpit. This comes naturally if the turn is coordinated. I usually avoid these threads but there is a safety issue here. I teach my students to LOOK WHERE THEY ARE GOING. Vaughn |
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Head orientation in turns--how is it taught for aviation?
Vaughn Simon writes:
I usually avoid these threads but there is a safety issue here. I teach my students to LOOK WHERE THEY ARE GOING. But you can look where you're going in both cases: with your head level with the horizon, and with your head level with the aircraft. |
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Head orientation in turns--how is it taught for aviation?
Mxsmanic wrote in
: Vaughn Simon writes: I usually avoid these threads but there is a safety issue here. I teach my students to LOOK WHERE THEY ARE GOING. But you can look where you're going in both cases: with your head level with the horizon, and with your head level with the aircraft but not with your head up your ass, fjukktard Bertie |
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Head orientation in turns--how is it taught for aviation?
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:19:47 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote: but not with your head up your ass, fjukktard Bertie http://www.lifeisajoke.com/pictures388_html.htm |
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Head orientation in turns--how is it taught for aviation?
On Jun 11, 5:26 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Vaughn Simon writes: I usually avoid these threads but there is a safety issue here. I teach my students to LOOK WHERE THEY ARE GOING. But you can look where you're going in both cases: with your head level with the horizon, and with your head level with the aircraft. Sometimes I do keep my head level with the horizon in a turn to assess bank angle peripherally while I clear ahead of the plane (this would normally be when I am in a medium turn and are clearing in front of the A pillar in a C172). I'm not sure if this is right or wrong, I just do it. |
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Head orientation in turns--how is it taught for aviation?
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:26:48 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote: But you can look where you're going in both cases: with your head level with the horizon, and with your head level with the aircraft. I can't imagine a pilot would crane his head left or right in order to stay oriented with the horizon. The natural thing to do is have your spine straight up and down, perpendicular to your seat. (Does anybody do it another way--in a real airplane, I mean?) Blue skies! -- Dan Ford Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 forthcoming from HarperCollins www.flyingtigersbook.com |
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Head orientation in turns--how is it taught for aviation?
On 2007-06-13 11:31:15 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT net said:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:26:48 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote: But you can look where you're going in both cases: with your head level with the horizon, and with your head level with the aircraft. I can't imagine a pilot would crane his head left or right in order to stay oriented with the horizon. The natural thing to do is have your spine straight up and down, perpendicular to your seat. (Does anybody do it another way--in a real airplane, I mean?) Blue skies! -- Dan Ford You are correct. Correcting any tendency to lean away from the turn is one of the first things any good instructor should address during the first hour of dual with any primary student. Dudley Henriques |
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Head orientation in turns--how is it taught for aviation?
On 2007-06-10 12:05:46 -0400, "Vaughn Simon"
said: "Bob Moore" wrote in message 46.128... Head and body should remain perpendicular to the floor of the cockpit. This comes naturally if the turn is coordinated. I usually avoid these threads but there is a safety issue here. I teach my students to LOOK WHERE THEY ARE GOING. Vaughn Actually, both you and Moore are correct really :-)) The body should remain straight and the head should not be "tilted" off the straight axis, but turning the head to look where you're going is absolutely correct. Turning the head while remaining straight up in the seat is not the same thing as bending the body off axis away from the turn which is I believe the main gist of the original poster's question. Dudley Henriques |
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