An Age of Magic

Who’s watching the pilot!

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An interesting, and in some ways unnerving, report was recently released in Australia that reveals a high number of airline pilots experience ‘out of body’ sensations while in the cockpit. As a frequent flyer myself I had to look at this and the reports were quite astonishing to read.

Apparently some pilots have the illusion that they are sitting on the wing of plane watching themselves sitting in the cockpit. This is due to spatial disorientation (SD) and causes some 26% of plane crashes. Experts say that all pilots at some stage lose sense of direction, height and speed with 90 - 100% of pilots experiencing this phenomena at some stage in their careers. This occurs mostly when a pilot is flying at high altitude with a relatively low workload.

Ok, so the answer is to stay busy guys!.

To the rest of you…have a nice flight!.

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Accents and Dialects

In reference to the previous post accents certainly are funny things. In fact a number of people constantly make the mistake of assuming I am Irish. I suppose that’s no real problem and usually I just inform them that I’m Belfast born, explain the difference and that’s that.

But there are those few we have met who insist on insisting that I AM Irish. They hear an accent with a ‘twang’ and that decides it for them. We met such a person on holiday recently; an english lady who is under the impression that everyone from Northern Ireland is Irish. Fair enough, Irish people make up a portion of the population there but everyone is of Irish descent who lives there.

As I say, most people accept they have made the wrong assumption yet this particular person was ready to start an argument with us about it!.

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