Solo Crash in Phoenix

[mtrv]

As I've often said, I think every professional pilot (ATP) should be required to complete a basic aerobatics course. Especially when you're at the controls of a turbo jet with mere hundreds of hours. It's just too much straight and level over the course of a career to not ever have an airplane upside down.

The following link is a situation of using the opposite control movements all the way to the ground, in a stalled airliner, if it's actually what happened.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/19/news/venezuela.php

 

[Say Again Over]

Nice article but I have to disagree with the previous post referring to aerobatic training being a good tool in fighting a loss of control due to jet upset. I feel the best training would be not to get yourself in that scenario to begin with.

 

[User546]

Nice article but I have to disagree with the previous post referring to aerobatic training being a good tool in fighting a loss of control due to jet upset. I feel the best training would be not to get yourself in that scenario to begin with.

Any professionally trained pilot is traned to know find yourself in an upset situation.

BUT, once your there, you better have the experience or background knowledge to know what to do and how to handle the situation.

 

[Say Again Over]

What experience am I going to gain to recover a 90 tonne airbus, lol.

 

[mar]

The Pinnacle

How nice to have finally reached the point where there's nothing left to learn.

Fly safe.