Conquering the Downwind Turn - SFTE Paper Followup.

Abstract

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 Plying 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA378153

Entities

People

  • Herman Kolwey

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Air Masses
  • Aircrafts
  • Aviation Accidents
  • Control Systems
  • Data Science
  • Electronic Mail
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Flight
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Flight Training
  • Gliders
  • Ground Speed
  • Mach Number
  • Statistics
  • Test Methods
  • Workload

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • International Journalism and Media Studies.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.