Task E. Recovery from Unusual Flight Attitudes

Knowledge

What you should understand and be able to explain.

4 elements

• PA.VIII.E.K1
  Prevention of unusual attitudes, including flight causal, physiological, and environmental factors, and system and equipment failures.
• PA.VIII.E.K2
  Procedures for recovery from unusual attitudes in flight.
• PA.VIII.E.K3
  Procedures 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.K4
  Appropriate use of automation, if applicable.

Risk management

Risks to recognize and decisions to consider.

8 elements

• PA.VIII.E.R1
  Situations 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.R3
  Collision hazards.
• PA.VIII.E.R4
  Distractions, task prioritization, loss of situational awareness, or disorientation.
• PA.VIII.E.R5
  Interpreting flight instruments.
• PA.VIII.E.R7
  Operating envelope considerations.
• PA.VIII.E.R8
  Control input errors, inducing undesired aircraft attitudes.
• PA.VIII.E.R9
  Assessment of the unusual attitude.
• PA.VIII.E.R10
  Control application solely by reference to instruments.