Must admit that I'd never heard of this "somatogravic" phenomenon either but that's probably because "pitch-up illusion" was self- explanatory ( and well-known to early jet jocks) in the olden days.
Probably why the Icelandic guy was so confused..... and because I never got to read all the new-fangled CAA stuff on Human Performance.
BTW, fly-half, one puts one's hands on the "cockpit coaming", above the Instrument Panel of the aeroplane, probably first used in the UK during the early sixties for Buccaneer carrier takoffs.
Better remember that for your first airline/ Air Force interview.........
dashboards are fitted to cars!
Regards (with tongue in cheek!)
Sleeve.
