According to Boeing and NASA, what’s the average time available to the pilot after an airplane upset that the pilot can still avoid a fatal crash?
a. ≈ 5 seconds
b. ≈ 10 seconds
c. ≈ 30 seconds
d. ≈ 60 seconds
In a paper titled “Defining Commercial Transport Loss-of-Control: A Quantitative Approach,” authors James Wilborn of Boeing and John Foster of NASA took a look at Loss of Control In-flight (LOC-I) accidents involving airline aircraft and determined that the average time available for the flight crew to recover from an airplane upset was about about 9.5 seconds. Click here to read more about the time critical nature of airplane upset recovery, and read below to find out what this means for UPRT.