(By Adam Kurtz. UND Today) – A recent Federal Aviation Administration recommendation is shining a spotlight on one of aviation’s most persistent safety challenges: spatial disorientation.

Two fatal crashes at Venice Municipal Airport in 2022 and 2023 were blamed on spatial disorientation.

When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they lose sense of their orientation – they might not be able to tell which way is up. This ...

New FAA guidance, Information for Operators InFO 26003, recommends spatial disorientation training for pilots operating under Part 91, Part 91K, and Part 135. It cites accident data showing that ...

Spatial disorientation (SD) in aviation refers to a misinterpretation of the aircraft’s attitude, altitude, or motion, often induced by conflicting sensory inputs. Pilots may experience erroneous ...

Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, GSAS PhD’17, is a research scientist at Brandeis’ Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

In a new experiment, a scientist attempted to build trust between humans and machine to help with spatial disorientation on the Moon or Mars. Reading time 3 minutes A one way trip to the Red Planet ...

Orlando, March 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aptima Inc., a leader in optimizing human performance through innovative technologies, announced today a contract award sponsored by the Naval Air Warfare ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. There’s an aviation term called the “death spiral”—when ...

WASHINGTON -- The Department of the Army announced today additional safety training for rotary-wing pilots and maintainers across all components effective immediately. During the training, the ...