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Old 20th Aug 2009, 07:45
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groper
 
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its hard to disorientate when you have those massive rocks sticking out like a saw thumb on the horizon
As A380-800 Driver points out, it is not hard but the rocks are. Disorentation is not restricted to spatial disorientation in IMC. I've seen many a good pilot disoriented (suffering from illusions) 'in the clear' but without a visual horizon....even though they thought they had one.

PNG and Irian Jaya seem to be the worst places I've witnessed it happening.
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