Continuing to build upon the late-1990s legacy of knowledge, intensive efforts in the past four years have propelled airplane upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) from the milieu of a few subject matter experts to finalizing international standards and guidance for commercial air transport (ASW, 7/13).
What’s new is increased experience among airlines that — after working closely with other stakeholders to stem the risk of loss of control–in flight (LOC–I) — have become voluntary early adopters of UPRT, some receiving glowing responses from pilots who have completed this training.
Presenters and attendees filled in details of these developments, cited a few points of controversy and highlighted next steps on their agendas during the World Aviation Training Conference and Tradeshow (WATS 2013) in April in Orlando, Florida, U.S.
“Stall training [has] been required, for a private pilot…
