How to Crash
Last updated by cburg Comments (3)
I thought this might be a good topic for a thread...
To start off...this is for rotorcraft but 80% applies to anybody:
I thought this might be a good topic for a thread...
To start off...this is for rotorcraft but 80% applies to anybody:
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Pretty cool and very good information. Of course the hope is that we will never have to do these things... I'm one who would rather talk it out in detail and have to deal with the chaos when the real deal hits. Maybe it will all be out of my hands but I find if I envision emergencies and reactions, I do better when I have a serious issue.
Lots of research shows that in an emergency we revert to our training and practiced reaction. If you have not been trained…the reaction is “like swimming in glue”. Qualitative and Quantitative overload or “sensory overload.”
My first experience with this was soon after I started driving. Our drivers ed teacher had shown us horrifying pictures of people who swerved for animals or hit big ones.
He taught us to fight the instinctive reaction to swerve when one jumped out in front and to duck if it’s a horse or moose.
Not long after that, I was driving on a narrow two-lane road cut through a tall hill. Nowhere to go on both sides of the road. As I was coming up the hill, a large dog jumped in front of me from the right. I instinctively wanted to jerk the wheel left, but instantly recalled my driver’s ed teacher. I stiffened instead and went straight ahead…and at that very instant (almost simultaneously) another car coming the opposite direct passed. If I would a severed it would have been a head-on.
I’ve since had other similar applications of things I was taught to do and how to react. It works…in split second time.