| Anyone who has been to an air show and witnessed | | | | aerobatic training are more apt to react instinctively, |
| the dizzying array of aerobatic maneuvers has | | | | resulting in less altitude loss, which is especially |
| probably walked away with two impressions: it looks | | | | important when wake turbulence is just one factor in a |
| extremely fun and it looks extremely dangerous. The | | | | larger unusual attitude situation. |
| fun part is a no-brainer, but what seem like maneuvers | | | | Fourth, one of the greatest keys to correcting an |
| that risk life and limb can actually serve as safety | | | | extreme unusual attitude situation is identifying the |
| maneuvers that help pilots regain control of an upset | | | | nearest horizon, which allows the pilot to roll in the |
| aircraft. Whether due mechanical failure, turbulence or | | | | shortest direction to rectify the aircraft. However, pilots |
| pilot error, any aircraft can end up in an "unusual | | | | without aerobatic training take longer to identify the |
| attitude", meaning that it can suddenly dive, turn upside | | | | horizon, resulting in altitude loss from either poor |
| down or find itself in a variety of other compromising | | | | response time or inappropriate intuitive recovery |
| positions that require immediate correction. In these | | | | actions, such as pulling the nose down through the |
| situations, pilots that possess aerobatic training are | | | | vertical and back up to the horizon. |
| often in better position than pilots possessing standard | | | | Fifth, just as instinctively knowing how to place the |
| emergency maneuver training for a variety of reasons. | | | | horizon is critical for recovering from extreme unusual |
| The first reason is that aerobatic training supplies pilots | | | | attitude situations, developing a "kinesthetic feel" for |
| with a greater scientific understanding of upset | | | | what varying levels of G-forces indicate about an |
| recovery techniques, including the physiological effects | | | | aircraft's flight can be essential to avoiding such |
| of aerobatics and the aerodynamic knowledge | | | | situations in the first place, especially since most |
| necessary for a complete understanding of aircraft | | | | aircraft don't have G meters. Aerobatic training |
| performance, structural limitations, V-speeds and more. | | | | teaches pilots how to sense when the plane is |
| With increased understanding of how to deal with | | | | approaching the stall and exactly how to un-stall the |
| upset recovery situations comes increased confidence, | | | | wings without overcompensating and causing further |
| which is the second advantage of receiving aerobatic | | | | unusual attitude problems. |
| training. Pilots that have never experienced "unusual | | | | While aerobatics isn't the crux of upset recovery |
| attitude" situations in a training setting can be prone to | | | | training, learning such maneuvers as the aileron roll, |
| panic or intuitive reactions that threaten an airplane's | | | | inside loop, Cuban 8, split "S", hammerhead and |
| structural integrity, which may lead to ground impact. | | | | Immelman can build a pilots' confidence and teach |
| Therefore, a third reason why aerobatic training is | | | | them how to deal with upset attitude situations in the |
| important is that it supplies pilots with advanced motor | | | | most effective way possible. Learning aerobatics can |
| skills for dealing with upset recovery situations. While it | | | | mean that you'll never be afraid of stalls, rolls, or even |
| doesn't require extensive aerobatic training to recover | | | | being upside down in an airplane again. |
| from standard wake turbulence encounters, pilots with | | | | |