Flying and gravity inside a habitat

You would continue in basically a straight line. (Exactly a straight
line if you were in a vacuum and there were no effects of gravity.)
Since your frame of reference is rotating, you would appear to
curve. Locally, it's indistinguishable from gravity. Once you're
looking at two points where the direction to the center of rotation
has changed noticeably, it's distinguishable from gravity just as
linear acceleration is distinguishable from the earth's gravity when
you're looking at places far enough apart that the direction to the
center of the earth is noticeably different.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" wrote:
>
> Okay, I got a question...
>
> Say you're inside a rotating space habitat and you take a jaunt in
> your microlight aircraft. Once you're actually in the air, and did
> some maneuvering, if you cut power...would you fall?
>
> There isn't really any gravity inside your rotating habitat, after
> all. The rotation of the habitat that creates a simulation of
> gravity. But if you're not touching the outer surface, why would
the
> rotation affect you? (Yes, air rushing by you would affect you, but
> probably not in exact the same way as real gravity.) In fact, would
> you even feel the "gravity" if you were in the air?
>
> So...what would happen and why? And what related complications (or
> benefits) are going to result from the fact that the "gravity"
inside