Quote: TyroPicard
Irrelevant since the human sensors cannot distinguish between the two - the pilot's wrong reaction and poor I/F technique is the important point.
(And being picky the simulator uses a fixed pitch angle to simulate constant acceleration, not a continuous pitch-up).
Now donīt get funny. The human senses can be tricked to think it is the same, which is the principle all simulators use. However it works only if the human in the box is following other information as well, like the instruments (showing level flight) and the speed (showing increasing) and by chance also a applicable outside visual system. In that combination the brain is likely to believe, that the pitchup of the box is a longitudinal acceleration. Because the same individual subjected to the same pitchup in the box feels a climb, iif the instruments tell him it is one.
So donīt jump to the wrong conclusions here, in the simulator the movement of the box gives an artificial feeling for the intended simulated reality, and it only works if you get tricked by the combination of your senses.
Whereas in reality you run in problems, if you get tricked by one sense only, because the others (visual, instruments, situational awareness) are reduced , lost or not observed.
So what you could find out of the reaction of your student, not falling to the intended illusion of the simulator, that his instrument cross check was not existent and therefore recognizing the correct movement of the box by his sitting muscle.
A box stays a box, also there are quite a lot of differences in simulation.
franzl