THE SITUATION:

#1. You're flying back in to the home field after a weekend trip in a light twin engine. You are cleared to land on a parallel runway slightly behind a heavy aircraft landing on the other parallel, crosswinds are significant and the air is already turbulent. As you pass through approximately 500 feet on your gusty wind approach, the aircraft suddenly rolls violently and sharply to greater than 90 degrees of bank!! You're now staring directly at the ground and the aircraft is shuddering from impending stall! What do you do??

#2. You and your first officer (FO) are on a radar downwind to an ILS approach. You are busy briefing the approach while the fairly inexperienced FO answers ATC and monitors the flight management system (FMS) on autopilot and heading mode for your vector. While you are heads down in the approach plates, the FO fails to recognize that the aircraft's autopilot has commanded nearly full left aileron and spoiler in an effort to counteract a now runaway aileron trim condition to the right. Suddenly, the aircraft's autopilot kicks off, a loud aural tone sounds, and the aircraft rolls rapidly past 90 degrees of bank as the nose falls dramatically towards the ground!! The FO is taken totally by surprise and freezes!! What do you do??

#3. You've just taken off on a hot day and high-density altitude from a strange field in your single engine aircraft. Shortly after crossing the runway threshold, your seat latch becomes dislodged and your seat rapidly slides all the way backwards preventing you from adequately reaching the control yoke and rudder pedals and sends your aircraft CG aftward. The aircraft pitches farther skyward as you fight to get your seat forward again,..the aircraft is slowing. You regain your seat position, but the aircraft is now in a hazardously high AOA with the stall horn sounding and aircraft vibrations from impending stall, you are less than 1000 feet AGL.

What do you do??

THE FACTS:

Couldn't happen to you? Think again! 32% of all fatal aircraft accidents in the United States between 1987 and 1996 were from aircraft loss of control, or A-LOC. If you have to even think about these situations while on the ground and at zero airspeed and altitude, how can you ever be prepared to safely and successfully handle them airborne? Over 500 aircraft have been destroyed in the past few years for the same reason and stall/spin accidents have accounted for roughly 12% of general aviation accidents and 25% of fatal accidents. In almost every situation, either the pilots did not possess the skills to recover from a recoverable situation, applied inappropriate control inputs resulting in aircraft loss of control, or failed to recognize the aircraft's unusual attitude in time to affect a safe recovery.

Loss of control in flight continues to be a major cause factor in loss of life and hull damage aircraft accidents. Realistic training for this very dynamic and disorienting event is difficult because current simulators do not reproduce the angular and g accelerations or the disorientations of the actual event. Also, simulators, although excellent training aids for certain situations, don't allow you to “feel” aerodynamic forces at work during certain situations and cannot provide certain environmental factors that could play a part in each recovery scenario. Training in transport or normal category aircraft cannot be safely done because the upset environment will take the aircraft and crew close to their limits.

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