The All-Attitude Upset Recovery Checklist

The intent of this article is to provide pilots of all skill and experience levels an opportunity to review the general concepts of the All-Attitude Upset RecoveryTM Technique. The recovery is designed as a single procedure checklist to address both stalls and unusual attitudes in a wide variety of fixed wing aircraft to include general aviation, business jet and airline transport airplanes. As a checklist, its successful application is significantly improved if the pilot has completed a comprehensive upset recovery training course. As with all in-flight procedures, the pilot implementing the recovery is expected to have aircraft-specific knowledge related to their aircraft’s performance and flight characteristics.

Spinning Normal Category Aircraft – What’s the Risk?

The Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) plays a critical role in ensuring every pilot being instructed and evaluated by them is ultimately safe and safety conscious. As CFIs, our assessment of a pilot’s proficiency status comprehends a wide spectrum including: flight preparation, aeronautical knowledge, recency of experience, regulatory awareness and compliance, system management, stick and rudder skill, aeronautical decision-making and mental attitude. In General Aviation, the CFI commonly represents the measuring stick by which most pilots compare their piloting capability to the ideal. This is a tremendous responsibility that CFIs should not take lightly.

What’s The Big Deal About Angle of Attack?

How exactly do you put your finger on the single most important aerodynamic component or practice related to upset recovery training? That’s a tough question and, quite honestly, the answer varies depending upon the situation being addressed. As opposed to picking “one” aerodynamic component as “the” critical factor in upset recoveries, a thorough discussion of recovery techniques must focus on the order in which control loss issues are addressed for a generalized recovery to be effective in a wide variety of instances.

Skidded Turn Traffic Pattern Stall Discussion

V-G Diagram Discussion with APS Training

Commercial Aviaton Safety Team: 2009 Statistics

Preparing for Your APS Upset Recovery Course

Executive Air Safety Chairman, ALPA (2001-04)

Professional training dedicated to helping pilots acquire the skills necessary to cope with an unexpected upset is essential. Having flown with APS Emergency Maneuver Training it is clear their training meets the need. By blending academic, simulation, and on-aircraft flight training into an effective syllabus, I think they have one of the best, if not the best, programs for upset recovery training in the world…

(USA Today) NTSB: Pilots Need Air-Hazard Skills

Pilots at airlines receive almost no hands-on training in how to recover from aerodynamic stalls and other extreme scenarios, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The reason for the glaring shortfall is that current flight simulators, the backbone of airline training programs, cannot accurately reproduce such calamities…

Upset Training Deficiencies: Response to Colgan 3407

Aviation Performance Solutions, LLC (APS) announces its firm commitment to actively support the Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009 requiring enhanced stall and airplane upset recognition and recovery training for Part 121 Air Carriers. APS has augmented its on-going training solutions to further assist commercial aviation operators to mitigate the loss of control in-flight threat tragically demonstrated by the Colgan 3407 fatal crash in Buffalo, New York in 2009.

Corporate Pilot Feedback: ATR 42/72

Your professional conduct of this training is far above anything I’ve seen in my military and civilian flying career. Your understanding and ability to communicate difficult aerodynamic principles while applying the right level of intensity to the training sets the bar very high and was a perfect cap to my recent CFI ratings…

Upset Recovery Training: Practical Survival Skills

Enter APS Emergency Maneuver Training, whose motto is ‘to fly another day.’ APS is located in Mesa, Arizona, and is one of a handful of schools around the country that offers upset training to pilots of all backgrounds. APS is one of the few that is 141 approved, and that is dedicated to this type of training. We recently completed the APS Professional Pilot Upset Recovery Training Course, which included the core upset recovery program, spin training and instrument recovery training. While there are a number of schools that offer this type of training, we feel that APS offers an excellent value based upon the qualifications of the instructors, the quality of the curriculum, and the suitability of the airplane used.

Full Motion Cessna 172 Simulator at APS

US Marshals Service – Cessna 206 Pilot

I’ve been to several other facilities for various training programs, but without question, APS is the most professional organization I have been associated with … the training that I received over the past two days has been some of the most valuable training I have ever participated in.

Navigating the APS Online Upset Recovery Course

Pilatus Porter PC-6

This was my second time attending the training. [The APS Pilots] are the best instructors I have ever dealt with. In 16 years of flying this is the best course I have ever attended. This is a must for all pilots. If the FAA would mandate this training accident rates would drastically decrease…

Challenger 300 – Sobey’s Inc.

The URT program was some of the most valuable training received in nearly thirty years of flying. I wish that I had completed the course much earlier in my career. The APS staff was pleasantly helpful and provided excellent instruction …

Feedback on the Free APS E-Book

You have developed through extensive study and expense a proven method of upset recovery that benefits all aviators. You freely make this knowledge available to the public. It is your demonstrated high level of regard for the safety of all pilots that very easily convinced me that I will take your training around May, 2010. So thank you once again and I’ll see you all in AZ sometime early next year…

Next Page »