Originally Posted by AirRabbit
1. Proprioception is awareness of the position of one’s body in time and a defined space; and the proprioceptors are located in subcutaneous tissues of muscles, tendons, joints that respond to stimuli applied to the body. There is conscious and subconscious proprioception – in a simplified description,oneisrecognized, processed by the brain, and recognizes a solution or response … and the other is not processed by the brain, the body simply responds … much likequicklyjerking your hand away from a hot stove, or blinking your eye if it is threatened
Originally Posted by Bubbers44
. I think we have all had vertigo. Training lets us overcome it. It saved my butt once.
As a freefaller we used unconscious proprioception and developed subcutaneous muscles and sensors like the dancers but we use too sight and other senses to control body attitude ref horizon or to join relative freefallers . During the freefall each time we leave the aircraft we fall first in low gravity and have to find the good dynamic balance with very little movements. As pilot, and specialy IFR pilot we do not trust proprioception. Itwould be a dangerous fault denying IFR flight possibility, but ONLY instrument informations -exception is position of the body in the armchair, neck position, and control of fingers, legs and fixing the inside of the body. As Bubbers44 says training overcomes vertigo created by contradictory proprioceptions. Performance in spinning armchair with blinded eyes used for astronauts training shows that difference : freefallers are much better than fighter pilots. Pilots trust instruments not body feelings.