Originally Posted by OVERTALK
7000hrs multi and jet instruction and ME Inst Rating Examiner [14.5K hrs total].
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Pitch-up Illusion was the cause of GulfAir 072 in Bahrein. It can be a very overpowering illusion. It's lost many USN airplanes.
The last exchanges are a good reason why a ‘professionals only forum' might help in this type of discussion. Both comments are valid. Certainly we have ‘believe your instruments' drummed into us at an early stage...and certainly accidents have happened as a result of human physiology making us not do so–if only for a moment.
Perhaps if the posters had been clearly labeled with their qualifications, more thought would have gone into why they had introduced their post.
Anyway, this kind of discussion gives reminders, and interesting new details, that may be vital to us one dark and stormy night. I wish I had such a forum in the bad old days of ‘shut the hangar door!' outside duty hours.