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Old 20th Feb 2009, 16:42
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What do you mean about the "leans"? What is that exactly?
Sensory illusions.....

Sensory illusions in aviation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Your body is screaming at you, telling you to do something that is wrong.

Not exactly the same as needing the loo on a flight, but the commonality is the body overriding (or trying to) the cognitive functions.

If you look for autokinetic illusion on the page, you'll then understand how I once took avoiding action in a light plane 3,000' over the fens, when confronted by what I later realised to be a large greehouse with the sun reflecting on it