PROFICIENCY & EFFICIENCY 86 WX WATCH 89 TECHNOLOGY 91 DOGFIGHT 94 NEVER AGAIN UAT Unusual attitude training for jet crews is suported by a 1996 recommendation from the NTSB and by the FAA's "Airplane Upset Recovery Aid," issued in 2004 and revised in 2008. | TECHNIQUE | Unusual attitude training Two upsetting things you need to know B Y A LT O N K . M A R S H 82 | AOPA PILOT July 2014 Stallion 51 in Kissimmee, Florida. Even then, given the lack of experience, they just might get their instructors in an unpickleable pickle. It is recommended that you have 500 hours of flight time as a prerequisite. Most of us spend our flying years in a narrow range of comfortable flight attitudes. That happy place is defined VIEW THE VIDEO Fly along with the author. CHRIS ROSE YOU'RE GOING TO LEARN two things in this article, and both are upsetting. First, I flew an Aero Vodochody L-39 trainer jet and a North American P-51 Mustang fighter on the same day, and you didn't. It was my job; someone had to do it. Second, techniques you learned in smaller aircraft for recovering from unusual attitudes don't work as well for larger aircraft. You weren't taught wrong; it's just that you need to learn different procedures for larger aircraft. Primary student pilots would have to strap on parachutes even to attempt the maneuvers used during the two-day Unusual Attitude Training course given at