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The Roundtable / Re: How was your flight?
« Last post by Ben on May 21, 2024, 02:09:21 PM »^^^I actually count the number of rows to the emergency exit front and back from my seat. I figure if I am evacuating in the dark, upside down, or otherwise disoriented, I can still feel for the seats and count.
That's exactly what they teach at ASTC school. It's all about reference points, and for stuff like helos, apparently most of the crashes end with you being inverted. In fact the dunkers (at least the ones I was in for initial and refresher) are designed to only sink inverted, and you have to do at least a couple of iterations wearing a flight helmet and blinders to train you for finding reference points in the dark.