Hi all,
I have for the last few months being just a reader of e-mails in this
group but this topic is something which I have some knowledge
about.
This is due to some contacts with some training officers in England
in helicopter's (helis) training. They told me that most of the
casualties in helis during the Desert Storm were due to pilot error.
This was because the pilots, at night, rather than looking at the
instrumentation, which could telling them all the information about
their hight and other, relied in their visual perception of spatial
distance. They did consistent errors doing this type of analysis and
most of them come down in the water.
So if this sort of behaviour happened to experienced pilots like
those during the Desert Storm it is no surprise to have happened
to a less experienced one.
Bye for now.
Jorge Alvoeiro.
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> I have a pilot's license and on dark moonless nights, or fog conditions,
> one must ignore their senses and believe the instruments, regardless of
> how they feel. The altimeter will tell you if you are climbing, in steady
> flighy, or descending. The air speed indicator will tell you how fast you
> are going. One should tune to the VOR (radio) frequency at your
> destination, and "fly the needle". That is, there is an instrument that
> tells you if the radio station is ahead, behind, to the left or right of
> your position. That's how you home in in bad weather. Many planes also
> have distance measuring equipment that will tell you how far you are from
> the radio station.
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Jorge Alvoeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ph.D., Hull, UK) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Instituto Piaget-Viseu,
Estrada do Alto do Gaio,
Lordosa,
3510 Viseu,
Portugal.
