Did you know it's harder to balance on one foot if you have your eyes closed? It is.
This is something that suddenly became very important once humans began to fly. Our sense of balance is optimized for moving around on solid surfaces and it's quite poor at coping with constant random acceleration as you might experience if you were flying a plane. Many early pilots were astonished to find that they might enter a cloud upright, but then exit upside down (or more likely in an inverted spiral), once they had lost their visual cues. This led to the development of instrument flying and training pilots to trust their instruments over what their bodies were telling them.
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Date: 2016-03-02 08:28 am (UTC)This is something that suddenly became very important once humans began to fly. Our sense of balance is optimized for moving around on solid surfaces and it's quite poor at coping with constant random acceleration as you might experience if you were flying a plane. Many early pilots were astonished to find that they might enter a cloud upright, but then exit upside down (or more likely in an inverted spiral), once they had lost their visual cues. This led to the development of instrument flying and training pilots to trust their instruments over what their bodies were telling them.