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Maybe not… Seat of


the pants?


It’s not just your eyes that can fool you, other forces are waiting to deceive the unwary — it’s all down to spatial disorientation


been delayed and they didn’t depart until 8.30pm. By this time the sun had set and the light was fading; there was, however, still some daylight but the atmospheric conditions were hazy. The flight involved a transit to the coast


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ake-off in the Piper Saratoga that summer evening was scheduled for 6pm but one of the two passengers for the flight had


and the pilot might have elected to follow the gently curving coastline. Instead, he chose to take the more direct route 30 miles over the sea and out of sight of land. The haze, the grey sea and the failing light combined to obscure any clear horizon – conditions that called for an ability to make good use of flight instruments even if visual flight rules still applied. The Saratoga was still several miles


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