COURSE REVIEW - KEY POINTS
- In highly stressful situations that happen suddenly ?a pilot will react best and most successfully if they have been in other, similar high stress situations in a controlled training environment
- You can stall a wing at any wing loading, airspeed attitude or altitude
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- The best way to increase your chances of surviving an unplanned upset is to combine a UPRT course in an airplane with improving your general knowledge of aerodynamic
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- To successfully recover from an unplanned upset the pilot should experience extreme attitudes in training with a competent instructor before encountering them in the real world.
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- The Boeing 737-Max accidents were reported as caused by the failure of a poorly designed auto-trim feature intended to enhance pitch stability in manual flight at high AOA - Both accidents were caused by the crew’s improper response to the mechanical failure of the MCAS system
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- When faced with an upset data shows that pilots fail to prevent an aircraft from progressing into a fully developed upset and are unable to properly recover
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- The most important aspect of a well designed and flown UPRT course is flying with a certified, trained instructor in an aerobatic airplane using a comprehensive syllabus and current safety equipment?
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- The central theme of training pilots receive on a variety of stalls concentrates on the ACS/PTS requirements that teach approach to stall recoveries instead of full stall recoveries.
