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.

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...

On that terrible Sunday afternoon, with wreckage of a helicopter still smoldering on a hillside, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatched a team of investigators to Southern California.

Pilots can experience dangerous visual illusions and spatial disorientation even in Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC), particularly during approaches, stemming from conflicting sensory inputs.

Instrument takeoffs into low clouds are high-risk operations due to sudden immersion in instrument conditions, high pilot workload, and the potential for spatial disorientation caused by G-forces and ...