*** Posted by Rapier ***
Never heard of that one.
Most of the time when pilots become spatial disoriented it normally happens when they are flying in the clouds or at night. Rotating the head would just make it worse. The best way to fight it is concentrating 100% on your instruments. Especially the ADI. I don't understand why somebody suggested rotating your head, because a lot of times moving your head is what causes spatial disorientation. It screws up the orientation in the inner ear and gives you false indication of what is happening.

RUN]

Hi RUN,

Yes it makes sense what you said about concentrating on your instruments, perhaps I described the rotating of the head a bit wrong. I think what I meant to say was that if a pilot becomes disorientated he picks an object on the grond and focus's on that object (as well as observing his/her instruments) if he/she is spining very fast, like pilots do at airshows, I've noticed that they tend to look in one direction (on the ground) when they perform barrel roll's. It may be a natural reaction to do this. Were you taught on this subject at the academy and methods on how to deal with disorientation?

Regards

Rapier