FlightSafety International and Flight Research have launched their joint Upset Recovery Training.
The new training program aims to reduce loss of control in flight accidents by fusing FlightSafety International’s type-specific simulator training with Flight Research’s in-aircraft instruction, according to company officials.
Upset Recovery Training gives pilots the opportunity to experience inflight upset with real gravitational forces, vestibular excitation, and mental stress that can only be delivered in a plane, officials noted. This will build on FlightSafety’s simulation programs that replicate scenarios that cannot be safely accomplished in an aircraft, such as very low-level stall events.
“Using technology and the aircraft provides the most thorough training possible against loss of in-flight control, the single greatest cause of fatal aviation accidents for more than a decade,” officials said in announcing the new program.