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FlightSafety Adds More Sims to Upset Training Program

The new upset prevention and recovery training course at FlightSafety prepares pilots for loss-of-control situations.

The sim FlightSafety uses for G550 upset prevention and recovery training incorporate actual flight-test data to show users how the airplane will react in flight outside the normal flight envelope, such as deep aerodynamic stalls and extreme high speeds.

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

November 13, 2015

FlightSafety’s new upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) course offers training that can help pilots deal with loss of control, the accident category with the greatest number of fatalities in business and commercial aviation and also one of the NTSB’s “most wanted” safety improvements. The FlightSafety UPRT program was first offered in a Gulfstream G550 simulator at the Savannah, Ga., learning center, and this was the first simulator qualified by the FAA with an aerodynamic model that can replicate out-of-the-normal envelope maneuvers. FlightSafety has now added the GV simulator at its Wilmington, Del., learning center to the UPRT program. Qualification of the simulators was done under the FAA’s National Simulator Program.

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