Training and Workforce
Upset Training for Jet Pilots–In a Jet
Florida program takes unusual attitudes to the extreme
It’s not exaclty a business jet, but UAT’s L-39 provides a fitting platform for corporate pilots’ upset training.
It’s not exaclty a business jet, but UAT’s L-39 provides a fitting platform for corporate pilots’ upset training.

Lee Lauderback conducts upset training in a comprehensive program designed specifically for jet pilots. Best known for his warbird training and support company, Stallion 51 in Kissimmee, Fla., Lauderback decided a few years ago that crews of corporate jets with glass panels ought to train in something similar to what they fly for a living. As a veteran corporate jet pilot himself (former chief pilot for Arnold Palmer), Lauderback established his unusual-attitude training program branded as UAT. The logo even has a stylized “A” printed upside down. He chose the Aero Vodochody L-39 Albatros, a former Eastern bloc military trainer, as his platform, retrofitted with a modern Garmin G600 EFIS.