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Manual on Aeroplane Upset Prevention and Recovery Training
Doc 10011, AN/506, First Edition. International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Montreal: ICAO, 2014. 94 pp. Figure, tables, appendix.
Several ASW articles since mid-2009 tracked steps toward the global consensus on effective, feasible solutions for mitigating loss of control in flight (LOC-I). Recent public release of this manual sets an anchor point for aviation safety professionals regarding upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT), detailing the finalized set of international standards and recommended practices (see “Teaching UPRT,” p. 30) that resulted from five years of work by experts from many organizations. They knew that, in the manual’s words, “LOC-I accidents often have catastrophic results with very few, if any, survivors.”
The manual also lays…
