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My
daughter Mika who is now six years old; is a very active child. Everything she
does seems to be at very high speed, and of course she runs into things like
DOORWAYS and stuff. For several years I've been encouraging her to SLOW DOWN to
no avail. Lamps get knocked over, boxes tripped over, pinky toes slammed. What's
a father to do?!
In one of my
recent reasoning talks with her about the problem, I had decided to see if she
was using her PERIPHERAL
VISION. I
held two fingers near the side of her head and asked her not to move her eyes
from mine while she told me how many fingers she could count. She counted TWO,
so her peripheral vision seemed to work just fine. (phew) I was happy to
see that. Soooooo; I encouraged her to "turn on" her peripheral vision and keep
it on, so off she went practicing that, and do you know what? She has gotten
better about not hitting stuff doing her usual 70 mph runs.
"Mika-Mouse"
When there is a problem and you do something that helps, it is very gratifying to behold, but that got me thinking. In a discussion about Mika's need to use her peripheral vision, I had mentioned to Liana about the time that I nearly got hit broadside by another airplane; a very fast one. I was tooling around in a turbo Mooney and enjoying the view of the horizon straight ahead when all of a sudden my PERIPHERAL VISION picked up something in about my 8:00 position. Feeling that the object was very close, I had in an instant decided not to look but to REACT, so I immediately hit the Control Wheel Steering button CWS (autopilot was set on) and I put the turbo Mooney in a screeching right turn climb G forces and all, and once I let go of the button, the autopilot put the plane back where it had been before I hit the button only to see a very fast airplane heading away from me at about the 2:00 position, and off he went into oblivion. Although he had the best advantage to see and avoid, he failed to do so and apparently never even saw me. (love those attention getting GPS screens....NOT!)
After saying a grateful prayer of thanks for my PERIPHERAL VISION, I had thought back to another time when my PERIPHERAL VISION saved the day; that being the time I had hit a tree on go-around due to a buck deer coming out of the trees onto the runway as I was setting up for flair.
This Cessna guy was
apparently not using his PERIPHERAL VISION!
DO YOU USE YOUR PERIPHERAL VISION? I fly with a great deal of pilots out there checking them out in Mooney aircraft that I had sold to them and it amazes me how often something that may be on or near the runway on final, goes unnoticed by the pilot. I have even had to order a go-around due to a plane sitting on the numbers for takeoff which was unnoticed by the pilot. What's that about?! Is it possible that many pilots don't "turn on" their PERIPHERAL VISION? I feel that that is true with at least some pilots that I fly with. Lord knows that many drivers out there use TUNNEL VISION only, but what we all need to realize is that whether on the city streets or on the airways, TUNNEL VISION can be and is dangerous!
I have often compared flying an aircraft to 3D, and it is imperative that we use all of our GOD-GIVEN senses, especially when flying an aircraft. Let us explore how our PERIPHERAL VISION works....
The main functions of peripheral vision are:
Peripheral vision is a part of vision that occurs outside the very center of gaze. There is a broad set of non-central points in the field of view that is included in the notion of peripheral vision. "Far peripheral" vision exists at the edges of the field of view, "mid-peripheral" vision exists in the middle of the field of view, and "near-peripheral", sometimes referred to as "paracentral" vision, exists adjacent to the center of gaze. Peripheral vision is weaker in humans compared with other animals, especially at distinguishing color and shape. This is because the density of receptor cells on the retina is greatest at the center and lowest at the edges.. In addition, there are two types of receptor cells, rod cells and cone cells; rod cells are unable to distinguish color and are predominant at the periphery, while cone cells are concentrated mostly in the center of the retina, the fovea.
Flicker vision threshold is higher for peripheral than foveal vision. Peripheral vision is good at detecting motion (a feature of rod cells), and is relatively strong at night or in the dark, when the lack of color cues and lighting makes cone cells far less useful. This makes it useful for avoiding predators, who tend to hunt at night and may attack unexpectedly.
Peripheral vision loss results in tunnel vision .
The distinctions between foveal (sometimes also called central) and peripheral vision are reflected in subtle physiological and anatomical differences in the visual cortex. Different visual areas contribute to the processing of visual information coming from different parts of the visual field, and a complex of visual areas located along the banks of the interhemispheric fissure (a deep groove that separates the two brain hemispheres) has been linked to peripheral vision. It has been suggested that these areas are important for fast reactions to visual stimuli in the periphery, and monitoring body position relative to gravity It is used to see dangers coming up besides you.
PERIPHERAL VISION more:
We have
surprisingly low visual acuity (resolution) in parts of the
visual field that are not at the center of gaze where we are
looking. We are not aware of this because we
instinctively direct our center
of gaze to where we are looking.
The center of gaze, called the fovea, has a higher density of cones than anywhere else on the retina. In fact, at the fovea, there are no rods at all. (In the diagram at right, the cones are shown in green.) The fovea evolved to have the highest possible visual acuity, and the cones are as small as they can possibly be and still function. Moreover, in the fovea, the retinal ganglion cells have smaller receptive fields, and in the periphery, they have much larger receptive fields. Curiously, despite the vitality of cones to our vision, we have 125 million rods and only 6 million cones.
The density of cones in our center of gaze is shown in the graph above. The peak is on our fovea. The edges of the graph are our peripheral vision. The fact that our vision has the highest acuity in the center of gaze does not mean that our vision in the rest of the visual field is inferior its simply used for different things. Foveal vision is used for scrutinizing highly detailed objects, whereas peripheral vision is used for organizing the broad spatial scene and for seeing large objects. Our foveal vision is optimized for fine details, and our peripheral vision is optimized for coarser information.
PERIPHERAL VISION loss can also be attributed to the onset of Glaucoma symptoms:
With untreated or uncontrolled glaucoma, you might eventually notice decreased ability to see at the edges of your vision (PERIPHERAL VISION). Progressive eye damage could then lead to blindness.
In fact, glaucoma creates at least some vision loss in more than half of the approximately 2.5 million Americans estimated to have the eye disease and is the second leading cause of blindness.
Glaucoma is often referred to as the "silent thief of sight," because most types typically cause no pain and produce no symptoms. For this reason, glaucoma often progresses undetected until the optic nerve already has been irreversibly damaged, with varying degrees of permanent vision loss.
But with acute angle-closure glaucoma, symptoms that occur suddenly can include blurry vision, halos around lights, intense eye pain, nausea and vomiting. If you have these symptoms, make sure you immediately see an eye care practitioner or visit the emergency room so steps can be taken to prevent permanent vision loss.
During routine eye exams, a tonometer is used to measure your intraocular pressure or IOP. Your eye typically is numbed with eye drops, and a small probe gently rests against your eye's surface. Other tonometers direct a puff of air onto your eye's surface.
An abnormally high IOP reading indicates a problem with the amount of fluid (aqueous humor) in the eye. Either the eye is producing too much fluid, or it's not draining properly.
Normally, IOP should be below 21 mmHg (millimeters of mercury) a unit of measurement based on how much force is exerted within a certain defined area. If your IOP is higher than 30 mmHg, your risk of glaucoma damage is 40 times greater than someone with an IOP of 15 mmHG or lower.* This is why glaucoma treatments such as eye drops are aimed at keeping IOP low.
So, assuming that you are Glaucoma free and have
no other physical problems that can affect your
PERIPHERAL VISION, we at MOONEYLAND would
encourage all of our readers to "TURN ON" and
KEEP on your PERIPHERAL VISION when flying or
driving. I suppose the best way to accomplish
that is to keep in mind that we have been given
many GIFTS from Creation, and to USE those GIFTS
in order to live to fly and drive yet another
day!
Fly, fly, fly, but above all else..........
Fly safe
zef
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