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Environmental Tectonics (ETC) is putting a select number of customers in a spin here at Farnborough in Hall 4/H8.
The favoured few will be asked to try out the company's spatial disorientation simulator, which re-creates the effect of pilot dizziness, one of the leading causes of aviation accidents.
US-based ETC has just sold two of the simulators to the RAF Aero Medical Training Centre. The aim is to give pilots an understanding of the sensations associated with spatial disorientation and loss of situational awareness.
Here at the show, customers will experience the grim sounding ‘graveyard spin' which normally occurs when a pilot corrects an aircraft after it has spiralled out of control.
Programme manager Keith George says: "This low-cost unit, which also acts as an instrument simulator, is ideal for small training schools and colleges or medical centres."
Source: Flight Daily News
