Originally Posted by
Lala Steady
As I understand it, the somatogravic illusion ( the feeling of pitching nose up when experiencing a liner acceleration forward) was well documented by carrier pilots being steam launched and why they used to do the launch 'hands-off' to prevent them pushing nose down into the sea.
They would certainly experience it in night or DVE conditions, not so much with a good horizon, as the visual imagery will be given precedent by the brain I think. I think the early military jets (Canberra etc) were prone to it doing missed approaches in IMC, until it was better understood, but that's from memory.