Upset Recovery Training
For many years, the term ‘Upset Recovery Training‘ has been a specialized industry buzz-phase identifying a highly specialized discipline of advanced flight training. Depending upon the reference or who you talk to, Upset Recovery Training can be limited to a narrow spectrum of docile non-stalled out-of-the-ordinary flight conditions or can encompass the entire spectrum of emergency maneuver situations from classic power-off stalls to extreme unusual attitudes to wake turbulence to fully developed aerodynamic spins.
Full compliance to the principles and teachings of the Airplane Upset Recovery Training Aid is the crucial element of a training provider’s standardization.
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. Quality courses in Upset Recovery Training must always focus on recognition and avoidance through enhanced awareness. Although the ‘Recovery’ training is crucial yet must not take precedence over the pilot’s education in prevention and diagnosis of potential upset situations to avoid them if at all possible.
Current Status of Upset Recovery Training in Aviation
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 and knowledge resources. This is primarily due to the perceived risk of thorough upset recovery training, the limited accuracy of full-flight and in-flight simulator fidelity in extreme flight conditions, and the stark absence of instructor knowledge to effectively teach all-attitude all-envelope recovery procedures. In fact, most upset recovery providers either don’t understand what true all-attitude all-envelope upset recovery training involves or dismiss the concept entirely and just stick an ‘upset recovery training’ sign on their ‘aerobatics course’. This is tragic but not really the training provider’s fault as the industry, generally speaking, is in the long drawn-out process of scrambling together masses of concept approaches to attempt to mitigate the LOC-I threat.
Fortunately, in our decade of experience instructing upset recovery techniques at APS to thousands of pilots of all experience levels in real aircraft and advanced flight simulators, we have figured it out and consistently demonstrate profound skill development in every participating pilot. Simply put, it is the total absence of fundamental all-attitude recovery skills imparted by upset recovery training experts following a building-block approach, not simulator fidelity or aircraft type, that is the leading contributing factor to industry-wide piloting deficiency in LOC-I upset recovery mitigation capability.
Is There a Solution?
Yes and we’ve proven it consistently and repeatedly for years to each of our 1000s of graduates. Don’t take our word for it, see what APS Emergency Maneuver Training clients have to say about their upset recovery training skill development with our team. With just a few hours of the right kind and quality of dedicated all-attitude upset recovery training, pilots of every skill-level can be armed to effectively and efficiently deal with any recoverable in-flight upset. APS offers a variety of solutions to meet almost any personal or flight department budget as follows:
