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Preventing Loss of Control; Patty Wagstaff and Rich Stowell

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Loss of Control Inflight (LOC-I) is the primary cause of fatalities in aviation. It dominates in all areas from homebuilts to commercial jets worldwide. National Transportation Safety Board Member Earl Weener has called LOC-I a “stubbornly recurrent safety challenge.” Join veteran pilots and trainers Patty Wagstaff and Rich Stowell as we try to understand this phenomenon and offer actionable strategies for pilots (and their CFIs). Learn about new training approaches and hopeful preventive measures.

SAFE (The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators) is producing this program and has been promoting aviation excellence for educators and pilots since 2009. SAFE supplies all the quarterly DPE/CFI Forums for the FAAST team presentations! SAFE provides the aviation community with resources to advance the CFI profession and to assist aviation educators in developing skilled, knowledgeable, and safe members of the aviation community. SAFE is an all volunteer, educational not-for-profit professional organization and contains a disproportionate number of the top aviators in the country. They sponsored the original PIlot Training Reform Symposium and created the popular CFI Toolkit App used by over 1500 working CFIs. SAFE is presenting this live stream program with the expert assistance of Gold Seal Groundschool. We invite your participation at #askgoldseal

Whether you are a flight instructor or interested pilot, please join us for this real world discussion of strategies and tools for preventing Loss of Control. Walk away with actionable new ideas and techniques from our industry professionals! Pursue excellence in aviation. https://safeblog.org/rock-your-faa-wings/

Presenters: 

Patty Wagstaff is a six-time member of the US Aerobatic Team, having won the gold, silver and bronze medals in Olympic-level international aerobatic competition and is the first woman to win the title of US National Aerobatic champion and one of the few people to win it three times. Patty one of the world’s top airshow pilots, flies thrilling, low-level aerobatic demonstrations before millions of people each year.  Her breathtaking performances give air show spectators a front-row seat view of the precision and complexity of modern, unlimited hard-core aerobatics. Her smooth aggressive style sets the standard for performers the world over.

Rich Stowell took his first flying lesson in 1982 and earned his Private license in early 1984. He began his career as a full-time instructor in 1987. In February 2001, Stowell was designated the country’s first Master CFI-Aerobatics and has served on the Master Instructors LLC Board of Review for Master CFI-Aerobatic applicants ever since. He is also the 2014 National FAA Safety Team Rep of the Year, the 2006 National Flight Instructor of the Year and Charter Member of SAFE He developed the Aerobatic Instructor Designation Program (a derivative of the Master Instructor Program) in 2006, the Emergency Maneuver Training Program in 1987 the training Course Outline for the EMT Program approved under Part 141 in 1994

David St. George is the board chairman of SAFE and an FAA Pilot Examiner. He recently renewed his Master Instructor for the tenth time. Formerly a 141 Chief Instructor for over 25 years, he started flying at 16 and has logged over 16,000 hours (12K dual) He owns a 1946 7AC Aeronca Champ and maintains the popular SAFE Toolkit app.

Russell Still is a lifetime CFI who runs the Gold Seal Groundschool Network.