Recovery from Unusual Flight Attitudes

The applicant demonstrates understanding of:

• PA.VIII.E.K1Prevention of unusual attitudes, including flight causal, physiological, and environmental factors, and system and equipment failures.
• PA.VIII.E.K1aa. [Archived]
• PA.VIII.E.K1bb. [Archived]
• PA.VIII.E.K1cc. [Archived]
• PA.VIII.E.K1dd. [Archived]
• PA.VIII.E.K2Procedures for recovery from unusual attitudes in flight.
• PA.VIII.E.K3Procedures available to safely regain visual meteorological conditions (VMC) after flight into inadvertent instrument meteorological conditions or unintended instrument meteorological conditions (IIMC)/(UIMC).
• PA.VIII.E.K4Appropriate use of automation, if applicable.

The applicant is able to identify, assess, and mitigate risk associated with:

• PA.VIII.E.R1Situations that could lead to loss of control in-flight (LOC-I) or unusual attitudes in-flight (e.g., stress, task saturation, inadequate instrument scan distractions, and spatial disorientation).
• PA.VIII.E.R2[Archived]
• PA.VIII.E.R3Collision hazards.
• PA.VIII.E.R4Distractions, task prioritization, loss of situational awareness, or disorientation.
• PA.VIII.E.R5Interpreting flight instruments.
• PA.VIII.E.R6[Archived]
• PA.VIII.E.R7Operating envelope considerations.
• PA.VIII.E.R8Control input errors, inducing undesired aircraft attitudes.
• PA.VIII.E.R9Assessment of the unusual attitude.
• PA.VIII.E.R10Control application solely by reference to instruments.

The applicant exhibits the skill to:

• PA.VIII.E.S1Use proper instrument cross-check and interpretation to identify an unusual attitude (including both nose-high and nose-low) in flight, and apply the appropriate flight control, power input, and aircraft configuration in the correct sequence, to return to a stabilized level flight attitude.
• PA.VIII.E.S2Use single-pilot resource management (SRM) or crew resource management (CRM), as appropriate.