EAA Sport Aviation

altitude I noticed our wings were
banked slightly to the left, and I was
already 5 degrees off course. Before I
could bring the plane back on course, I
noticed we were now 100 feet
high and still climbing.
Steve sat
chuckling beside
me. It wasn’t a
condescending
laugh, but
rather one
of those
“I’ve been
there and
know how
you feel”
laughs.

Wearing
these glasses,
everything in
me felt like we
were straight and
level, not climbing,
descending, or turning
even though the instruments
indicated we were. Even stranger,
when I leveled our wings per the
attitude indicator, it felt like we were
in a slow turn to the right. If I wasn’t
careful, my tendency was to start a
left bank again to satisfy my
equilibrium.

Those silly glasses created a war for my allegiance. Who to trust now?

Knowing the purpose of this training, I declared war on my senses and was determined to win this battle by learning to tell myself no. The

Those silly glasses created a war for my allegiance.

Who to trust now?

decision to trust those instruments instead of my inner ear didn’t magically stabilize our altitude. There were still lessons to be learned.

Steve instructed me to make the
attitude indicator my home base. This

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