Upset prevention and recorvery training

Abstract

This article aims to present and clarify the UPRT course which means “Upset prevention and recovery training” and establishes a combination of theoretical knowledge and flight training with the purpose of providing the flight crew with the essential skills to prevent and recover from situations in which an airplane involuntarily exceeds the flight parameters. Due to the lack of knowledge about upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT), this study is justified through the presentation of ideas that demonstrate how this course is indispensable for the pilot’s professional development, significantly increasing the ability and skill. This crew member will know how to avoid and get out of a flat spin, recover from a turbulence, recognize the proprieties of the stalls types and analyze better one’s own limits. Although the benefits are of great value to the aeronautical community, the dissemination of this course is small, in view of the countless accidents caused by the lack of training of pilots. This study aims to show how the upset prevention and recovery training course influences the pilot’s decision making, with the advantage of lower risk issues for the crew and passengers. In order to follow the research paths, a basic structured study was chosen, with no complete and immediate purposes, but which intends to shape and gather knowledge that can be used in other research. The study also has an investigative goal and bibliographic method, as it examines in the literature and accessible documents - books, periodicals, scientific articles, dissertations, theses, norms – information used to spread the training. The study approach is qualitative and intends to elucidate matters about the course and to present the benefits gained in the application of the Upset Prevention and Recovery Training.