The professional conduct of this training is far above anything I’ve seen in my military and civilian flying career I strongly recommend [APS training and firmly believe that all new pilots should have this training as a condition of certification. The training flows so well, even the lowest time pilot can follow easily.

Mesa, Arizona (PRWEB) July 1, 2010 -- Professional pilots and private pilots will benefit from two new affordable online upset recovery video training courses being offered by APS Emergency Maneuver Training – http://www.apstraining.com. Each course can now be purchased at a reduced rate without signing up for a monthly membership. Internationally recognized, APS is the leading provider of loss of control in-flight instruction, delivering the highest quality comprehensive online video ground training to pilots of all skill levels, including the life-saving knowledge to recognize and avoid numerous lethal loss of control in-flight situations.

All instructors have extensive experience in general aviation, aerobatic maneuvering, military instruction, technologically advanced aircraft and commercial and/or transport flight operations.

APS is now offering professional pilots and private pilots the following two new upset recovery video training courses which do not require signing up for monthly membership:

Basic Upset Recovery Video Training: Includes introduction and 5 training modules (13 hours of video training). The cost is $242 for three months. This course is ideal for private pilots, pilots on a budget and pilots interested in an introduction to loss of control in-flight. Topics covered include:

Advanced Upset Recovery Video Training: Includes all Basic Upset Recovery Video Training and 4 additional modules with 10+ hours of video training (23+ total hours of video training). The cost is $448 for six months – and on-going access to all content is available for $10 per month upon completion. This course is ideal for professional pilots, commercial airline pilots, jet pilots and serious private pilots. Topics covered include:

Both courses include the following articles which may be downloaded:

“The professional conduct of this training is far above anything I’ve seen in my military and civilian flying career,” said Kevin Fittz, Corporate Pilot: ATP, CFI-MEI, CFI-I, CSEL, Commercial/Instrument Rotorcraft. “I strongly recommend [APS training and firmly believe that all new pilots should have this training as a condition of certification. The training flows so well, even the lowest time pilot can follow easily.”

To purchase APS’ upset recovery training visit http://www.apstraining.com/upset-recovery-training/life-saving-pilot-training/

About APS Emergency Maneuver Training
APS Emergency Maneuver Training has trained more pilots in fully comprehensive upset recovery training skill development than any other training organization. For the past 15 years, APS has been committed to giving professional pilots and private pilots of all skill levels the highest quality, most affordable upset recovery training available. In addition to all APS training being in compliance with the Airplane Upset Recovery Training Aid, it is the only Part 141 Flight School certified in the delivery of upset recovery, spin and also instrument recovery training courses worldwide.

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Online Upset Recovery Training for Pilots of All Skill Levels Developed by Aviation’s Leading Provider of Loss of Control In-Flight Instruction

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Mesa, AZ – Aviation Performance Solutions, LLC (APS) announces the release of its online upset recovery training academic program previously only available to pilots participating in-person at the APS Emergency Maneuver Training campus at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Arizona USA. Over a decade in development, this ‘pilot skills training enhancement course’ will further support the APS commitment to providing pilots of all experience levels the knowledge necessary to be academically prepared to address aviation’s most lethal threat, loss of control in-flight.

“One of the biggest challenges associated with addressing loss-of-control in-flight pilot training, often referred to as upset recovery training, is educating pilots that their regulatory-compliant licensing training only comprehends just over 10 % of the actual flight envelope they fly in every flight.” says Paul BJ Ransbury, President of APS Emergency Maneuver Training. “We witness on a daily basis the disbelief pilots experience, as well as the despair they feel, when they realize first-hand that not only do they not have training useful in nearly 90% of the full flight envelope of their aircraft, the skills they do have are often setting them up to do exactly the wrong thing in an airplane upset necessitating their intervention to recover. Very often pilots graduating from our courses testify they now know they would have never survived an actual airplane upset without having had specialized upset recovery training as offered by APS. Our recently released online course Preparing for Practical Upset Recovery Training lays the foundation of academic preparation for on-aircraft training but also educates pilots on their own deficiencies that they themselves must address as regulatory certification training does not currently provide these crucial survival skills”.

Is Loss of Control In-Flight really that big of a deal or just a new piece of ‘here-today-gone-tomorrow’ drama for the aviation training industry to let pass with time? Yes, it is a big deal and no, it won’t just ‘go away’. In fact, over the past 50 years of statistically analyzed accident history in commercial aviation, Loss of Control In-Flight (LOC-I) is indisputably one of the most persistent leading causes of airplane crashes and crash-related fatalities worldwide. Regrettably, current pilot training curricula, standards and certification requirements perpetuate this pilot-skill deficiency. In a report issued by Boeing in July 2009, the Commercial Aviation Safety Team’s statistical research clearly shows LOC-I representing the most severe cause factor in commercial aviation over the past 10 years, resulting in the most crash-related fatalities from 1999 through 2008. Commercial aviation will continue to experience high rates of LOC-I fatalities until a training solution to mitigate this threat is implemented. This inexpensive online training course is the place to start for pilots at all stages of flight experience. Today’s aviation training marketplace does not currently offer a tangible solution to dealing with Loss of Control In-Flight (LOC-I) using readily available assets, technologies and knowledge resources. This is primarily due to the perceived risk of thorough upset recovery training, the limited accuracy of simulator fidelity in extreme flight conditions, and the stark absence of instructor knowledge to effectively teach all-attitude all-envelope recovery procedures.

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About APS Emergency Maneuver Training

APS Emergency Maneuver Training has trained more pilots in fully comprehensive upset recovery training skill development than any other training organization. For the past 14 years, APS has been committed to giving both private and professional pilots the highest quality, most cost-effective upset recovery training available. APS has a diversity of turnkey solutions to mitigate the Loss of Control In-Flight threat from online computer-based training solutions to a fully integrated full motion simulator curriculum complimented by real on-aircraft training. Every APS instructor pilot’s professional flight experience spans a highly specialized spectrum of aviation uniquely qualifying them as ideal LOCI-I training providers. All APS instructors have extensive experience in; all-attitude all-envelope maneuvering in both piston and jet aircraft, military instruction, technologically advanced aircraft and transport category flight operations. In addition to all APS training being in compliance with the Airplane Upset Recovery Training Aid – Revision 2, APS Emergency Maneuver Training is the only Part 141 Flight School certified in the delivery of upset recovery, spin and instrument recovery training courses worldwide.

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Arizona-based Flight School Addresses Airplane Loss of Control Training Deficiencies in Response to the Fatal Colgan 3407 Accident in Buffalo, NY

Mesa, AZ – 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.

Over the past 50 years of statistically analyzed accident history in commercial aviation, Loss of Control In-Flight (LOC-I) is indisputably one of the leading causes of airplane crashes and crash-related fatalities worldwide. Regrettably, current pilot training curricula, standards and certification requirements perpetuate this pilot-skill deficiency. In a report issued by Boeing in July 2009, the Commercial Aviation Safety Team’s statistical research clearly shows LOC-I representing the most severe cause factor in commercial aviation over the past 10 years, resulting in the most crash-related fatalities from 1999 through 2008. Commercial aviation will continue to experience high rates of LOC-I fatalities until a training solution to mitigate this threat is implemented. Today’s aviation training marketplace does not currently offer a tangible solution to dealing with Loss of Control In-Flight (LOC-I) using readily available assets, technologies and knowledge resources. This is primarily due to the perceived risk of thorough upset recovery training, the limited accuracy of simulator fidelity in extreme flight conditions, and the stark absence of instructor knowledge to effectively teach all-attitude all-envelope recovery procedures.

“At APS Emergency Maneuver Training, we consider upset recovery training to encompass the entire field of adverse flight-attitude and flight-envelope situations irrespective of whether they are pilot-induced, environmentally-induced or system anomaly-induced.” says Paul BJ Ransbury, President of APS Emergency Maneuver training. “APS fully supports upcoming industry regulatory changes to improve the safety of air travel by addressing the LOC-I threat head-on. Robust upset recovery training solutions must be proven effective and remain focused on recognition and avoidance through enhanced pilot awareness. The actual process of on-aircraft recovery technique implementation is both irreplaceable and crucial to significantly enhancing the professional pilot’s LOC-I skill-set. However, ‘recovery techniques’ on their own must not be the sole focus, nor take precedence over the pilot’s specialized education in prevention and diagnosis of potential upset situations. With APS’s enhanced multi-faceted approach to delivering our integrated prevention and recovery LOC-I strategies, tomorrow’s commercial pilot will be optimally armed to recognize, avoid and, if necessary, immediately recover from life-threatening flight scenarios such as the Dash-8 Colgan 3407 accident this past year in Buffalo, New York”.

About APS Emergency Maneuver Training

APS Emergency Maneuver Training has trained more pilots in fully comprehensive upset recovery training skill development than any other training organization. For the past 14 years, APS has been committed to giving professional pilots the highest quality, most cost-effective upset recovery training available. APS has a diversity of turnkey solutions to mitigate the Loss of Control In-Flight threat from online computer-based training solutions to a fully integrated full motion simulator curriculum complimented by real on-aircraft training. Every APS instructor pilot’s professional flight experience spans a highly specialized spectrum of aviation uniquely qualifying them as ideal LOCI-I training providers. All APS instructors have extensive experience in; all-attitude all-envelope maneuvering in both piston and jet aircraft, military instruction, technologically advanced aircraft and transport category flight operations. In addition to all APS training being in compliance with the Airplane Upset Recovery Training Aid – Revision 2, APS Emergency Maneuver Training is the only Part 141 Flight School certified in the delivery of upset recovery, spin and instrument recovery training courses worldwide.

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Accident investigators say new flight simulators could help correct the biggest killer in aviation: pilots who can’t recover from out-of-control situations like the one that killed 50 people in a crash near Buffalo last year.

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.

Years of research in the military and NASA has led to new simulators that accurately represent how planes behave in stalls, severe icing and other crash scenarios, according to the NTSB and scientists — but there is no federal requirement to use those simulators.

The machines could help with one of the most vexing and deadly problems facing aviation. A USA TODAY review of NTSB accident reports over the past decade found that 317 of the 433 airline fatalities on U.S. carriers since 2000 — or 73% — could have been prevented with better simulator training. Around the world, planes that went out of control and crashed killed 1,991 people from 1999 through 2008, according to Boeing. That is more than twice that of the second-biggest category, accidentally flying into a mountain or the ground.

In the crash near Buffalo on Feb. 12, 2009, a pilot jerked the plane into a steep climb that stalled the wings. The proper way to recover would have been to lower the plane’s nose, but the pilot kept trying to pull the nose up, according to the NTSB. The plane struck a house, killing all 49 aboard and a man in the home … Read the Full Article at USA Today

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In a 2007 study going back over 50 years, a Boeing safety group identified in-flight loss of control as the number one source of airline fatalities. The 2008 Nall Report tells a similar story for general aviation airplanes.

Loss of control- in flight, or LOC-I in the argot of those who study aircraft accidents, includes a host of hazards ranging from garden-variety stalls to control surface hardovers and encounters with wake turbulence.  LOC- I accidents happen to the spectrum of civilian pilots, from Students to airline veterans, and every one of the rest of us in between.

The stubbornness of LOC-I as the single largest cause of fatal accidents has a great deal to do with the way that we train.  While the airlines have incorporated a number of  loss of control scenarios in their training, general aviation has not really addressed the issue.

The quality of GA training varies widely, and most pilots have never been in a spin unless they trained to be flight instructors or took aerobatic lessons.  Most stall training is aimed at avoidance, rather than recovery.  We go to the horn, or if we’re really feeling brave, to the buffet, and then fly the airplane out.  We rarely completely stall the airplane, especially in crossed-control or other aggravated configurations.  So is it any wonder that when we are confronted with a sudden loss of control of the airplane, we don’t typically react well enough to live through the event?

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.

All of the APS instructors are former or current military instructor pilots, and a  number have airline experience as well.  We flew with the company’s president, Paul “BJ” Ransbury, and the Director of Flight Training, Clarke “Otter” McNeace.  Both flew F/A-18’s, both have thousands of hours in the Extra 300, and both have strong academic backgrounds for the material they are teaching. Before each flight, they conducted a thorough briefing on the flight.  There was a great deal of stress on making sure that we understood the physics of the upset as well as the recovery.  There was also repeated emphasis on the steps of the recovery procedure.  After each flight, students are debriefed.  We found that the debriefings were excellent reinforcement.  The instructors seemed to have almost total recall of the specifics of the flight.  The airplanes are also equipped with video cameras mounted on the right wing, vertical stab and inside the cockpit.  Particularly after the spin flights, video was used for the debriefings along with the instructors comments.  Each student goes home with cd’s of all of the flying that he did during the course.

We found the curriculum to be a good balance of academics and a rote building block approach to use in the airplane.  We were furnished with the course manuals months before arriving and were urged to read them and re-read them before starting the course.  We found that this helped speed up our learning substantially.  Everything that we were taught in the classroom sessions was carefully related to what we would see and do in the airplane, but there was a considerable underpinning of aerodynamics.  None of this is rocket science, but we came away with a much better understanding of the fundamental importance of angle of attack, as well as the effects of g-loading, roll-yaw coupling, negative roll damping.

In addition to the academic side of things, APS provides a building block approach which they call the ‘All Attitude Upset Recovery Checklist,’ a five step procedure which allowed us to proceed one step at a time from total chaos to recovery of the airplane to an upright attitude.   As the name implies, this technique is used for almost every situation except for fully-developed spins.  For spins, APS uses the NASA spin-recovery technique.

One of the most important parts of the training was the ‘say and do’ technique, which forces the student to name each step of the recovery process as he does it.  We found that if we could say it, we could eventually do it as well.  By the end of the course, the combination of increased understanding and repeated practice with the techniques made us feel that we probably would have the chance ‘to fly another day.’

For upset and spin training, APS relies upon two Extra 300L’s, complete with shark’s teeth.  While the point of the training is to learn to recover within the limits of Standard or Transport category airplanes, the Extra’s unlimited aerobatic capability and limit load of plus or minus 10 g’s make it an ideal airplane for this type of training.  There is no maneuver that can’t be recovered from, and your internal organs will probably fail before the airplane does.  The huge margin between the g’s that you pull in the course and the g-load available to the airplane made us feel very comfortable.  And if you haven’t flown an Extra before, you are in for a treat.  Aside from the light stick forces which took us about 15 minutes to get used to, there are few surprises.  It goes where you point it, and does what you think it will.  If you have never flown with a stick before, you will find the transition painless.

APS has a military feel to it, and it is noticeable throughout  the course.  The instructors and some of the students wear flight suits.  Most flights start as a formation flight of two airplanes out to the practice area, then break up into north and south working areas, and at the end of the lesson, rejoin for the brief flight back to the airport.  If you are interested in trying your hand at formation flying, this is a good time for it.  Missions, as APS refers to them , are  crafted so that there is no time wasted, and yet we never felt that it was a problem if we wanted to see a given maneuver yet another time.  And if we didn’t do it correctly, the instructor’s would point out our errors, and we would keep doing it until we had it right.

There were a number of maneuvers put into the syllabus as demonstrations, and we thought that these were well chosen and great teaching tools.  Our personal favorite was the zoom maneuver, which basically consists of pulling the nose up to about 30 degrees, and then pushing till you are light in the seat, about ½ G.  The airplane flew a gentle arcing parabola, and as airspeed dropped, we were encouraged to move the controls in order to see that when unloaded, the controls remained effective 20 knots below the published 1-g stall speed.  This was an excellent graphic reminder of the effects of g-loading on angle of attack and hence upon stall speeds.

The greatest benefit of the course is that the student, accompanied by an extremely experienced instructor in a very capable airplane is able to safely explore areas of the envelope well beyond what he will see in normal operations, or what he could live through if he saw it by himself for the first time.  The skidding turn stall is performed by starting a turn, and then feeding in increasing amounts of inside rudder while gradually adding aileron against overbank and back pressure in an attempt to keep the nose from falling.  When the stall comes, it is spectacular, and it happens at a speed well above the published stall speed, rolling the airplane onto its back quite briskly, and leaving you looking down at rocks and desert, no blue sky, the proverbial ‘face full of dirt.’  Using the all-attitude upset recovery technique, the student goes from step to step, fixing the upset by saying and making one control input at a time.  Another unusual attitude covered in the course is the spiral dive.  When our instructor gave us the controls, the airspeed was almost 200 knots, and the g-load was about 3.8, well beyond what you would want to do intentionally in your own airplane, but not so different from what might happen in the real situation.

We liked the businesslike approach that the instructors took toward the training.  They carefully briefed the flight, and then flew the mission as briefed.  In case we missed anything, we then sat down and debriefed.  We felt that there was a good balance of academics and the rote learning that must be at the heart of any emergency procedure where the pilot is not likely to be thinking clearly.  We liked the airplane.  While the point of the course was to learn how to recover the kind of airplane that you actually fly day in and day out, it was nice to know that if you screwed up a maneuver or a recovery, you wouldn’t hurt the airplane.

We think that the experience we gained during the course is invaluable.  Our sense is that in order to remain proficient in the recovery procedures, we would have to return every two years or so.

The APS courses are not cheap.  The 2-day, 3 flight Basic Upset Recovery course lists on the website for $2,415.  The Standard Emergency Maneuver Training course lasts 3 days and includes 5 flights,  and lists for $3,290.  APS also offers training in formation flying, aerobatics, and simulator training as well.

We felt that given the experience of the instructors, the curriculum and the airplane, that the price of the courses we took was an excellent value.  We would recommend this school to any pilot who is interested in learning more about upset recovery. We will certainly be back next year.

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Arizona Flight School Launches Full Motion Flight Simulator Training  for Light Airplane Pilots to Mitigate the Loss of Control In-Flight Threat

MESA, ARIZONA USA: APS Emergency Maneuver Training announced today the unveiling of its all-new full motion simulator dedicated to providing upset recovery training to light general aviation pilots. Upset recovery training develops the piloting skills necessary to reduce the loss of control in-flight threat, the leading cause of fatalities and hull losses in commercial aviation worldwide.

APS Emergency Maneuver Training made the decision to integrate a full-motion general aviation training device in response to the aviation industry’s need for pilots to develop the skills necessary to be able to recover from a wide variety of loss of control situations. The current general aviation certification training is limited to very benign unusual attitudes and stall situations. Through the use of a certified full motion simulator training device it is possible to train pilots, with little or no experience recovering from unusual attitudes, how to recover their airplane safely to save lives and to ultimately reduce the accident rate in aviation. Some of the typical limitations to simulator training, over real or plain training, are; flight envelope fidelity, motion queuing, G-loading and unloading, as well as a general lack of reality that is unavoidable regardless of the complexity of the ground-based simulator used. These limitations can be overcome through proper identification and integration with a robust, proven curriculum to develop real-life skills necessary to reduce the loss of control in-flight threat.

“Integrating motion as part of simulator training is a very important aspect of this type of pilot skill development to ensure the training being given maximizes the ability of students to deal with a real loss of control situation.” says Paul BJ Ransbury, President of APS Emergency Maneuver Training, “Startle Factor, one of the most challenging aspects of upset recovery training, must be dealt with in a manner by which the pilot can retain positive control of the airplane and deal with the situation properly and correctly despite the threatening nature of the flight condition.” Mr. Ransbury explains that although there are limitations to full motion simulator training, is important for pilots to be capable of recovering an airplane in spite of motion and disorientation as opposed to recovering in response to motion cues. In appropriate response to mis-interpreted motion cues of the vestibular systems can quickly lead to spatial disorientation. Simply put, according to Ransbury, a pilot in an airplane upset must recover an aircraft despite their instincts prompting them to make inappropriate control inputs due to the disorientation of rarely experienced motion cues.

The most important aspects of this type of specialty training, is that it is delivered by upset recovery training experts. The training must be combined with an integrated thorough academic program utilizing repetition to proficiency techniques and recall technologies. The core elements must be integrated into a comprehensive program for pilots to develop the skills necessary to deal with a counterintuitive flight condition rarely experienced in day-to-day flight operations.

ABOUT APS EMERGENCY MANEUVER TRAINING

APS provides a spectrum of specialized training services to benefit almost any organization’s budget constraint to mitigate the Loss of Control In-Flight threat. With stand-alone and combined programs integrating multi-media academic seminars, up to Level D full flight simulators and real aircraft flight training in high performance aerobatic platforms, APS provides the safest environment possible while allowing pilots to explore any flight envelope or maneuver series desired. All APS instructor pilots are commercial airline pilots, formal course military instructors and graduates of the APS Platinum Seal Instructor Pilot Upgrade Program specially trained to deliver enjoyable, educational and safety-first aviation courses to pilots of all skill and experience levels. APS Emergency Maneuver Training offers what has been appropriately coined the “Master’s Degree Program in Upset Recovery Training” and is receiving an influx of positive attention by pilots and aviation companies throughout the aviation industry.

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To help put this achievement in its proper perspective, there are approximately 92,000 CFIs in the United States. Fewer than 600 of them have achieved that distinction thus far. The last 13 national Flight Instructors of the Year were Master CFIs. Clarke is one of only 21 Arizona aviation educators to earn this prestigious “Master” title and one of only 20 nationwide to earn aerobatic accreditation. In the words of former FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, “The Master Instructor accreditation singles out the best that the right seat has to offer.”

The Master Instructor designation is the industry’s only professional accreditation recognized by the FAA. It is earned by candidates through a rigorous process of continuing professional activity and peer review. Much like a flight instructor’s certificate, it must be renewed biennially. This process parallels the continuing education regimen used by other professionals to enhance their knowledge base while increasing their professionalism. Simply put, the Master Instructor designation is a means by which to identify those outstanding aviation educators, those “Teachers of Flight,” who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to excellence, professional growth, and service to the aviation community.

Earning this designation is tantamount to having the words summa cum laude emblazoned on an instructor’s certificate. These Masters truly represent the crème de la crème of our industry! To publicly recognize these individuals and their noteworthy accomplishments, NAFI will be hosting its “Meet the Masters” breakfasts, to which Clarke will be invited, during EAA’s AirVenture in Oshkosh and Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland.

NAFI is dedicated to providing support and recognition for America’s aviation educators while helping them raise and maintain their level of professionalism. It is also committed to providing a safe and effective learning environment for student pilots. The Association was founded in 1967 and affiliated with EAA in 1995.

Please feel free to disseminate this information. Questions regarding the Master Instructor program may be directed to 303-485-8136 or NAFIMasters@aol.com. Additional information is available at http://www.NAFIMasters.org/ and www.NAFInet.org.

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According to Boeing’s Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents – Worldwide Operations 1959 – 2006, Loss of Control In-Flight (LOC-I) represents the most severe accident cause factor in commercial aviation over the past 10 years. This report indicates LOC-I resulted in the most crash-related fatalities from 1997 through 2006 – even more than the historic leader, Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT). Aviation safety organizations and legislating agencies continue to accurately identify the lethality and severity of LOC-I. Unfortunately, without a demonstrated ability to implement an effective solution to the loss of control threat, commercial aviation will continue to be plagued by high rates of LOC-I fatalities until an answer is found. Where CFIT can be economically addressed through the integration of ground proximity warning systems and synthetic vision instrumentation augmentation, technology does not offer a “quick fix” to LOC-I from extreme flight conditions. In response to this persistent threat, the aviation industry continues to seek innovative upset recovery training services to mitigate the LOC-I worldwide.

Founded on 13 years of rigorous course development and over 12,000 flight hours of real-airplane upset recovery instruction, APS Emergency Maneuver Training has created innovative flight training services in full motion simulators to develop highly effective upset recovery skills in professional pilots. These simulator courses of training use the world’s most advanced full flight simulators and are modeled around the recommended training procedures and training exercises dictated in the FAA Airplane Upset Recovery Training Aid. “A tremendous amount of valuable training can take place in advanced full flight simulators to instill procedural all-attitude recovery ability in pilots of any technologically advanced fixed-wing commercial aircraft.” says Paul BJ Ransbury, President of APS Emergency Maneuver Training and airline pilot, “It is the responsibility of training organizations around the world to implement standardized instructional solutions for pilots to effectively and immediately resolve threatening flight conditions before they develop into the extreme. However, if faced with an extreme flight condition beyond everyday experience thresholds, pilots should have no question as to what to do in the cockpit to save lives.” Ransbury emphasized APS Emergency Maneuver Training continues to offer a variety of statistically-proven-effective upset recovery training courses in real aircraft. By combining highly specialized ground training with full flight simulators, APS offers a risk-free training option to airlines and corporate flight departments seeking a technical and procedural solution to mitigating the loss of control risk.

About APS Emergency Maneuver Training

APS provides a spectrum of specialized training services to benefit almost any organization’s budget constraint to mitigate the Loss of Control In-Flight threat. With stand-alone and combined programs integrating multi-media academic seminars, up to Level D full flight simulators and real aircraft flight training in high performance aerobatic platforms, APS provides the safest environment possible while allowing pilots to explore any flight envelope or maneuver series desired. All APS instructor pilots are commercial airline pilots, formal course military instructors and graduates of the APS Platinum Seal Instructor Pilot Upgrade Program specially trained to deliver enjoyable, educational and safety-first aviation courses to pilots of all skill and experience levels. APS Emergency Maneuver Training offers what has been appropriately coined the “Master’s Degree Program in Upset Recovery Training” and is receiving an influx of positive attention by pilots and aviation companies throughout the aviation industry.

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In the 2007 Boeing Aircraft Company report, Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents Worldwide – 1959 to 2006, LOC-I represents the most severe causal factor of crash-related fatalities from 1997 through 2006 – even more than the historic leader, Controlled Flight Into Terrain. According to the Commercial Aviation Safety Team, there has been recent industry emphasis on fatalities being a more accurate representation of the severity of an accident as opposed to hull-losses traditionally used as the indicator.

APS formally evaluated 115 licensed pilots, of varying experience and certification levels, in their ability to recover from extreme flight conditions representative of LOC-I scenarios. Overall performance varied somewhat within pilot certification levels with professional aviators showing the best results at a 42% success rate and private pilots flying small general aviation aircraft at 28%. In just three days of specialized APS training, these same pilots were able to consistently recover from 94% of the same loss of control situations. In addition to dramatic skill development, the research also demonstrated the ability of pilots graduating from an APS 3-day 5-flight upset recovery training program to retain over 75% of their skills 18 months after completing the course. So far, the research has been internally sponsored by APS to identify the need in the marketplace and to demonstrate the effectiveness of a specialized training solution. The company is actively seeking external funding to augment their research efforts to provide a worldwide solution to prevent LOC-I accidents. More detailed information is available on the APS Emergency Maneuver Training website (www.apstraining.com) by clicking on “Media”.

“Our Loss of Control In-Flight research was motivated by the recognition that without an ability to identify the need or implement an effective solution, aviation would continue to be affected by high rates of loss of control crashes and associated fatalities indefinitely.” says Paul BJ Ransbury, President of APS Emergency Maneuver Training, “As evidenced by our research results, pilots are ill-equipped to deal with loss of control scenarios beyond the accepted limitations of their training requirements during pilot certification and recurrent simulator training. Just as important as identifying this skill deficit in pilots is our demonstrated capability to dramatically improve a pilot’s ability to effectively resolve a wide variety of loss of control situations. The exciting part is that it takes only a few days to instill these life-saving piloting skills and the increased ability lasts for years.” Mr. Ransbury continues to explain that the extensive academic understanding imparted to pilot trainees participating in APS multi-day training courses, combined with proprietary building-block advanced flight training regiments, produces pilot graduates armed with the knowledge and practical skill to recognize, avoid and, if necessary, recover from in-flight upset situations.

ABOUT APS EMERGENCY MANEUVER TRAINING: APS Emergency Maneuver Training, an FAA-approved 141 Flight School specializing in Upset Recovery, Spin Training and Instrument Recovery courses, is the largest provider of dedicated upset recovery training services in North America. Offering what has been coined the “Master’s Degree Program in Upset Recovery Training”, APS continues to receive a growing influx of positive attention by pilots and safety organizations throughout the aviation industry. As a compliment to its industry-leading training facility in Arizona, APS uses the Extra 300L German-built aerobatic training aircraft. The Extra 300L provides the safest in-flight training environment possible, yet allows a pilot to explore any flight envelope or maneuver series desired. This aircraft is the highest performance certified aerobatic aircraft in the world and allows realistic training amidst a safe environment under the guidance of expert military-trained commercially experienced flight instructors. The company has the resources to train thousands of students each year and provides complimentary course evaluations to corporate flight departments, insurance companies and training organizations interested in mitigating the LOC-I threat.

For media inquiries, photos and flight information, visit: www.apstraining.com or contact the APS VP Business Development, Tara Ransbury, toll free at 1-866-359-4273 or via email at tara.ransbury@apstraining.com.

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