BEA Report on Air France AF447 Urges Better Pilot Training
The French Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyse (BEA) has presented its final report on Air France flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1 2009, killing all 228 people on board. One of the...
View ArticleICATEE Article in the ICAO Training Report
Dr. Sunjoo K. Advani, Chairman of ICATEE, offers a new perspective on Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT). The article has been published in the ICAO Training Report Vol 2 No 1 (June/July...
View ArticleAdvisory Circular on Stall and Stick Pusher Training issued by FAA
The U.S. Department of Transportation and the FAA have issued an advisory circular on stall and stick pusher training. The core concepts of the training are parallel with the ICATEE principles. ICATEE...
View ArticleManual Handling – CAT Magazine
Halldale Publications’ Civil Aviation Training (CAT) Magazine features an article on ICATEE’s deliverables in its 4th Issue of 2012. The article presents the philosophy behind the manuals, and...
View ArticleAirplane Upset Recovery Training Aid Available Online
In 1998, the aviation community published the Airplane Upset Recovery Training Aid, providing pilots and instructors with the academic knowledge on airplane upsets. The latest version of this valuable...
View ArticleThe Element of Surprise
CAT magazine issue 1 2014 has published a new article on the need for startling scenarios as part of Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) for airline pilots. Accident statistics show that...
View ArticleAerodynamic Stall Can Prompt ‘Brain Stall’
When pilots face an unexpected event—and with the impressive levels of reliability these days, these are indeed very rare—often there is a cognitive freezing that causes confusion or reversion to...
View ArticleUPRT: How to train the trainer
Upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) will take many airline pilots out of their comfort zone, exposing them to places unknown. For most of their instructors, too, these places until recently...
View ArticleNOS National News Coverage of ICATEE’s Loss of Control Training...
Pilots must practice in reality how to prevent loosing control over their airplane and regain control in the case of an upset condition. The European Aviation Organization EASA is therefore changing...
View ArticleICATEE honoured by the RAeS
The International Committee for Aviation Training in Extended Envelopes (ICATEE) was awarded a Specialist Team Bronze Award for the Committee’s exhaustive work in addressing the challenge of reducing...
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