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The benefits and limitations of ground-based upset-recovery training for general aviation pilots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2016

R. O. Rogers  and
A. Boquet
R. O. Rogers*
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical Science, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
A. Boquet*
Affiliation:
Department of Human Factors, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
*
rogers@erau.edu
boque007@erau.edu
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Abstract

Research by Rogers et al (2009) and Leland et al established that flight simulator training can improve a pilot’s ability to recover a general aviation aeroplane from an in-flight upset. To reach this conclusion, they administered simulator-based and classroom-based upset-recovery training to two groups of student pilots, then compared their performance in recovering an aerobatic Decathlon aeroplane from a series of four upsets with the performance of a third group of untrained control group pilots subjected to the same upsets. We extend this result by addressing the unanswered question of how much classroom-based training as opposed to simulator-based training contributes to improving a pilot’s upset-recovery manoeuvring skills. After receiving classroom-based upset-recovery training but no simulator training, our participants were subjected to the same series of four upsets in the same Decathlon aeroplane. We then compared the performance of the classroom-trained pilots with the performances of control group pilots and the two groups of simulator-trained pilots. Statistical analysis suggests that classroom-based instruction alone improves a pilot’s ability to recover an aeroplane from an upset. We summarise related research, describe the training experiment and the training program, analyse and interpret flight-test data, and explain what our research implies with respect to establishing career-long commercial pilot upset-recovery training requirements.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 116 , Issue 1184 , October 2012 , pp. 1015 - 1039
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2012 

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