Close Call in the Cockpit - R' Naftali Reich

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In the lobby of Shalim, there hangs a picture of a phantom jet flying over the Harahabias from the Israeli Air Force. The pilot of that jet actually made his way back to his Torah roots and was learning in the yeshiva and he shared with people what helped him make his way back. He was once on a grueling training mission. They were flying at high altitude and turning upside down. And what happens is that one gets what's called the vertiggo that one gets what's called the vertiggo effect. The mind thinks it's flips upside down. We think we're going up and we're going down and sometimes we're going down and we think we're going up and the pilots are trained to follow the instrument panel in a very very dedicated way. Towards the end of this training mission, he was flying his jet. He was sure that he was flying and climbing higher and higher, but really he was plummeting down, down, down to the ground. And he heard on the earphones over the air. Move the

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1. 0:06In the lobby of Shalim, there hangs a picture of a phantom jet flying over the…
2. 0:36that one gets what's called the vertiggo effect. The mind thinks it's flips upside down. We…
3. 1:07earphones over the air. Move the joystick. You're going down. Move the joystick. But he was…
4. 1:39he said you were seconds away from a terrible death. We all have instincts. That pilot…
5. 2:11following my natural instincts, I live in a world of Olam Hoff, it's upside down and…

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