In a banking turn, however, the airplane is at an angle and will be scribing a large circle in the sky. This usually leads to the pilot attempting to climb by pulling back on the control yoke.
The pilot mistakenly believes they are flying with the wings level, but with a descent indicated on the altimeter and vertical speed indicator. Flying by "the seat of the pants", and failing to recognize and/or respond to instrument readings, is the most common source of controlled flight into terrain (CFIT), where an airplane controlled by a pilot hits the ground. Mechanical failure is often a result, but generally not a causal factor, as it is the pilot's sense of equilibrium which leads to the spiral dive. The graveyard spiral consists of both physiological and physical components. The pilot loses the ability to judge the orientation of their aircraft due to the brain's misperception of spatial cues. Graveyard spirals are the result of several sensory illusions in aviation which may occur in actual or simulated IMC, when the pilot experiences spatial disorientation and loses awareness of the aircraft's attitude. Graveyard spirals are most common at night or in poor weather conditions where no horizon exists to provide visual correction for misleading inner-ear cues. Other names for this phenomenon include suicide spiral, deadly spiral, death spiral and vicious spiral. In aviation, a graveyard spiral is a type of dangerous spiral dive entered into accidentally by a pilot who is not trained or not proficient in flying in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). Spiral dive entered by a pilot due to spatial disorientation Graveyard spiral
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