Title: How Pilots Survive Inhuman Levels of G Force
Headings: Here's How US Fighter Pilots Learn To Survive Under Inhuman Levels Of G-Force
Here's How US Fighter Pilots Learn To Survive Under Inhuman Levels Of G-Force
Pierre Bienaimé
A chart by a US Marine Corps Reserve plots the long, high-force circumstances that can lead to loss of consciousness.

Content: That's why fighter pilots-in-training have to spend some time in a centrifuge to prove they can handle the pressure. "Essentially, you are placed in a chamber that is on the end of a long arm that spins around the room — the faster it spins, the more G-forces you feel on your body," Jack Stewart, an active pilot with over 2,000 hours of experience in jet aircraft, wrote in an email to Business Insider. " Yes, it feels like weight is pushing down on every part of you." If you've ever been on a roller coaster, you know what a quick spike in G-force feels like. But the sensation of intense pressure is greater and longer in duration for someone strapped into the cockpit of a fighter jet, a vehicle which can "pull" up to nine times the force of gravity. YouTube is full of videos of what pilots call "g-monsters," or individuals adept at handling the incredible pressure created by the centrifuge, which is meant to simulate a fighter jet's G-force. The label is similar to being called a "stud" or "beast" in athletics, wrote Stewart. To viewers, there's little to betray the fact that the trainee is undergoing inhuman amounts of gravitational pressure. A "g-monster's" only giveaway is a gradually more contorted facial expression, as in the video below: YouTube
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