AOPA Pilot Magazine - April 2023 - 68

This wake turbulence encounter isn't a
surprise. It's a devilish test in which AOPA
Air Safety Institute (ASI) Senior Vice
President Richard McSpadden has intentionally
positioned the AOPA Extra 300L
directly behind a far larger Cessna 208
Caravan to subject an upset recovery
student to a strenuous and purposely
unpredictable event. As the Extra gets
buffeted and tossed in the swirling air
behind the Caravan, McSpadden hands
over control to the front-seat pilot, ASI
Video Producer Tyler Pangborn, and asks
him to recover.
" Your airplane, Tyler, " McSpadden
says. " See if you can salvage this mess. "
Pangborn, a private pilot with
about 250 flight hours including about
1.5 hours of upset recovery training in
the AOPA Extra 300L, is momentarily
stumped. The Extra is flying at 4,500
feet, 100 KIAS, and it's rolling quickly
to the left beyond 90 degrees of bank.
The nose is 20 degrees below the horizon
and dropping.
" OK, airspeed's increasing, " says
Bruce Williams (top right), a veteran
flight instructor and former Microsoft
manager, donated his Extra 300L
to AOPA in 2021. A Garmin GI 275
attitude instrument maintains its
orientation even when the airplane is
inverted (middle right). A boxy Caravan
and nimble Extra make an unusual
pair-but positioning the Extra in the
Caravan's wake provided a strenuous
test for the student in the Extra (series
below). The Extra buffets, shakes, and
rolls left before the student intervenes.
Pangborn as he pushes slightly forward
on the control stick and pulls the throttle
to idle. " Rolling right. "
The Extra rolls slowly at first, then
more briskly to wings level. A steady 3G
pull on the stick raises the airplane to
level flight from a 30-degree dive. The
Extra has fallen about 400 feet below the
Caravan, and Pangborn pushes the throttle
forward to start a climb.
" Give me a left turn so we can rejoin
and all do this again, " McSpadden tells
the Caravan crew. " This is really great
training because, once we move into your
wake, I have absolutely no idea what the
Extra's going to do-and that unpredictability
is what we're looking for. "
The question at the heart of this exercise
is whether lessons learned during
upset recovery training are " sticky. " Will
pilots be able to remember and apply them
when confronted by stressful and confusing
situations that happen weeks, months,
or even years later? In Pangborn's case, he
had made an introductory aerobatic flight
in the Extra and received ground and air
upset recovery training about two months
before the wake encounter flight.
When flying behind the Caravan,
Pangborn was thrown into a half-dozen
wake encounters leading to extreme
upsets, and he successfully suppressed the
" panic pull " instinct and recovered without
excessive altitude loss in all of them.
" Obviously, I knew these upsets were
coming, but there was still a bit of shock
factor when they actually took place, "
Pangborn said. " They were pretty severe.
I was glad that I had the presence of
mind to remember my training: push to
lower the wing angle of attack, and then
roll to the nearest horizon. My reactions
were a little slower than I would've liked,
and I'm sure I'd benefit from more training.
But it was good to know I can call
upon the lessons I've learned so far. "
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