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Credit: NBAA VBACE
On-aircraft experience in addition to simulator time is key to training pilots in aircraft upset recovery, safety and training experts say.
“Simulators are different than airplanes. The way your brain processes things and thereby the way you react to a situation is going to be different,” said Scott Glaser, speaking Dec. 2 during the NBAA VBACE virtual conference.
“The research shows that you need to train in an environment like the environment you’re going to experience these events in, so that means at least part of the training must be in an aircraft,” he advised.
Glaser is senior vice president of training provider Flight Research, of Mojave, California, and a member of the NBAA Safety Committee. Joining him in a discussion on Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) were committee members Janeen Kochan, president of Aviation Research, Training and Services of Winter Haven, Florida, and Paul Ransbury, CEO of Aviation Performance Solu