Helps Teach Pilots How To Recognize Loss Of Control Situations

Aviation Performance Solutions has launched an online upset recovery training program for private pilots of all skill levels. The training program was previously only available to pilots participating in-person at the APS Emergency Maneuver Training campus at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Arizona.

More than a decade in development, the upset recovery training provides comprehensive online video ground training to private pilots of all skill levels, including the life-saving knowledge to recognize and avoid numerous lethal loss of control in-flight situations.

APS says the benefits for private pilots taking it's upset recovery training online video courses include:    

• Appropriate for private pilots of all skill levels flying small general aviation airplanes – up to private business jets.
• Affordable monthly online training. The course introduction and first 2.5 hour video training module are only $1 for 30 days.
• Quickly understand why regulatory-compliant flight training has not provided acceptable levels of upset recovery skill development.
• Academically master the steps crucial to resolving any recoverable stall or unusual attitude.
• Learn why yaw and, more specifically, mishandling rudder can be deadly.
• Comprehensive instruction so a private pilot can understand and identify the most critical single flight control action they can take to be spin-proof.

 Volcanic Ash Invisible to Weather Radar presents serious danger to Aircraft 

There have been 90 incidents over the last 30 years in which aircraft have encountered volcanic ash, invisible to weather radar and totally undetectable at night, and several of the encounters created very dangerous situations.

Made up of pulverized rock and glass, the ash gets into virtually every aircraft system and can paralyze engines in minutes. The ash turns molten in a jet engine's combustion chamber and melds with moving parts like spray paint. It blasts cockpit windows, compromising visibility in seconds, and also clogs vital speed sensors, rendering an aircraft's flight computers almost useless. The deposits additionally coat the fuel system's temperature sensors, creating a false and lower temperature reading that causes the automatic monitoring system to pour in more fuel. This makes the engine dangerously hot, damaging the turbine and potentially leading to a shutdown.

The two most famous encounters with volcanic ash involved 747s, one a British Airways flight over Indonesia in 1982 en route to Perth from Kuala Lumpur and another involving a 1989 KLM flight en route from Amsterdam to Anchorage. In both cases, all of the engines failed and eventually were restarted at much lower altitudes but later were scrapped because of the damage. The KLM 747's environmental control system was replaced, its fuel tanks were cleaned and the hydraulic systems needed repair.

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