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It's an average, you might do better.

Dramatized:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXzYZjpoz_E

That was very good. I couldn't deduce what was going on until the last moment, which is (I assume) exactly the experience of pilots in this situation.

I don't understand at all. It mentions compass and altimeter -- why the hell isn't the pilot looking at the artificial horizon?

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