Inflight Visual Illusions

Part of any recurrent training program should be a review of the various visual and sensory illusions to which pilots may succumb and that lead to spatial disorientation. The following descriptions of the more common illusions are excerpted from the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM), Section 8-1...

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