PA.VIII.E — Task E — Recovery from Unusual Flight Attitudes

References: FAA-H-8083-2, FAA-H-8083-3, FAA-H-8083-15, FAA-H-8083-25; POH/Flight Manual

Objective: To determine the applicant exhibits satisfactory knowledge, risk management, and skills associated with attitude instrument flying while recovering from unusual attitudes solely by reference to instruments.

Knowledge — The applicant demonstrates understanding of:

PA.VIII.E.K1 Prevention of unusual attitudes, including flight causal, physiological, and environmental factors, and system and equipment failures.

PA.VIII.E.K1a a. [Archived]

PA.VIII.E.K1b b. [Archived]

PA.VIII.E.K1c c. [Archived]

PA.VIII.E.K1d d. [Archived]

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 — The applicant is able to identify, assess, and mitigate risk associated with:

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.R2 [Archived]

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.R6 [Archived]

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.

Skills — The applicant exhibits the skill to:

PA.VIII.E.S1 Use proper instrument cross-check and interpretation to identify an unusual attitude (including both nose-high and nose-low) in flight, and apply the appropriate flight control, power input, and aircraft configuration in the correct sequence, to return to a stabilized level flight attitude.

PA.VIII.E.S2 Use single-pilot resource management (SRM) or crew resource management (CRM), as appropriate.