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All of the training events were flown from SeaTac airport in VFR conditions What the? Why‽ It is easy to recover from any upset in VFR when you see th
by dmitrygr 6y ago
All of the training
events were flown
from SeaTac airport
in VFR conditions
What the? Why‽ It is easy to recover from any upset in VFR when you see the horizon. Doing it with no reference is much harder. And often causes crashes, eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Airlines_Flight_604 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Airlines_Flight_604
- tim333 6y agoI guess that's not what they were training for this time. I'm sure the pilot's done hours of IFR training at other times.
- dmitrygr 6y agoRecovering sudden upsets in IMC is VERY different than doing it in VMC. Doubly so if you're not sure which of your instruments you can trust.
- Toutouxc 6y agoYes, but the purpose of this was not to train how to recover stalls. It was to show to the pilot how the aircraft reacts when flown way out of the envelope and which things happen in which order. I guess the training was actually positively intended to be flown VFR, to give the pilot the least things to worry about and to allow them to focus on what exactly is happening.
- dmitrygr 6y agoSudden nose down (as MCAS does) is an upset and thus would probably be best practiced in worst case. Not best. When I go practice emergencies with my CFI (every 3 months) I ask him to make it as hard as possible, not as easy.