During the month that I gave the paper, an article appeared - again in the August Plying Magazine by Peter Garrison in which he asserted that there is no problem in turning downwind. I have watched the subsequent issues of flying but have not seen any mail responses from the crop dusters. They have either given up or are being filtered out by the aviation press. Also, the August 16 issue of Newsweek contained an article about Making Small Planes Safer (Science and Technology). This article indicates the FAA statistics attribute 1,022 general aviation accidents from 1976 to 1992 to Spatial Disorientation. That's 64 accidents per year to this problem, one piece of which is the turning downwind problem. It also States that: The way human beings perceive their own movement is fairly well understood. I'm not so sure.
Conquering the Downwind Turn - SFTE Paper Followup
2000
29 pages
Report
No indication
English
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