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Protection against G Force

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So G protection is when the pilot is,

they will often, experience

So when they're doing sort of tight

they would experience

So a high gravitational pull.

And what that does is that sort of pulls

from the brain into your, feet and legs.

And if anybody's sort of

standing up too quickly,

And particularly

seven G in a, in a couple of seconds,

And your pilots will experience

sort of tunnel vision,

which you really don't want

So G protection is designed to combat

Essentially this is a really crude

you squeeze the blood in the legs

So, pilots have something called

which is, kind of basically

and your glutes

to try and force the blood back up again

We have G protection,

on the legs so similarly to

the armband inflates

So it squeezes all the

so you don't get that effect.

So combining those two helps

while they're pulling those high peak

because I went up to the centrifuge

and we saw some of the pilots doing those

to simulate what it would be like.

And yeah, it does not look fun.

It's, quite, quite an experience,

I haven't been on it yet

Yeah, it's

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