FlightSafety's G550 Simulator Models Real Upset
Behavior
Flight sim upset recovery training
FlightSafety conducts its upset prevention and
recovery training program in a Gulfstream G550 simulator.
During the
past 30 years, hundreds of people have died in accidents when pilots lost
control of the airplane. The causes of these accidents vary, but many of them
might have been prevented or ameliorated had the pilots received upset
prevention and recovery training (UPRT) and understood exactly how to apply the
training.
FlightSafety's new UPRT course offers training that can
help pilots deal with loss of control, the accident category with the greatest
number of fatalities in business and commercial aviation and also one of the
NTSB's "most wanted" safety improvements. The FlightSafety UPRT program is
conducted in a Gulfstream G550 simulator, the first qualified by the FAA with an
aerodynamic model that can replicate out-of-the-normal envelope
maneuvers.
I was the fourth non-FlightSafety pilot to attend the
company's G550 UPRT class, which was taught by Dann Runik, FlightSafety
executive director of advanced training programs. Runik was careful to point out
that this course is designed specifically for Gulfstream pilots and isn't
necessarily transferrable to other airplane types. The exercises we practiced
replicated many of the notorious loss-of-control accidents of the past 30 years,
none of which occurred in Gulfstream jets.
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