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Old 2nd November 2012 | 16:55
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HazelNuts39
 
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Originally Posted by BOAC
So you accept that a pitch attitude can produce a sense of acceleration
I've never disputed that, nor have I disputed that somatogravic illusions can occur. What I'm arguing is that the combinations of pitch attitude and longitudinal accelerations that occur in maneuvers at more or less constant total energy (or at quasi-constant rate-of-change of total energy) - e.g. the swing analogy - do not result in somatogravic illusions.

Last edited by HazelNuts39; 2nd November 2012 at 17:03. Reason: simplified wording
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