A few times this year, amid news reports of air carrier accidents, inquiries poured into the Royal Aeronautical Society’s International Committee for Aviation Training in Extended Envelopes (ICATEE). Among those inquiries were a number indicating that some training organizations might be on the verge of implementing upset prevention and recovery (UPRT) programs without full benefit of current expertise. Moreover, some operators sounded uncertain about how to recognize commercial programs that unjustifiably deviate from leading experts’ consensus on how to conduct UPRT, Sunjoo Advani, chairman of ICATEE and president of International Development of Technology, told AeroSafety World (ASW) in August.
The overall interest indicates that awareness of this committee’s work since May 2009 in UPRT apparently has permeated the aviation industry. Updates on imminent global adoption of recommendations to mitigate loss of control–in flight (LOC-I) were due to be presente…
