DylanAviation

The Chandelle is just one of the maneuvers flown in my Emergency Maneuvers Course. This course is meant to be a definitive safe flying clinic that reviews best pilot practices to safely extricate a small airplane from an emergency situation. In the case of loss of control accidents, almost all involve a turn. It follows that learning to properly fly Emergency Maneuvers should begin with a comprehensive study about the anatomy of a turn.

During the first lesson of this Emergency Maneuvers Course, students focus on 30 degree banks to perform normal turns, climbing and descending turns and full deflection “roll turns”. The session ends with the challenging, skill building Dutch roll. After an extensive “work out” flying the turn, this course reviews different flying emergencies and best practices for the resolution of those emergencies. Flying skills will be discussed on the ground and then applied in simulated emergency scenarios.

Lesson #2 is about using “top rudder” and zero g recovery techniques to recover from unusual attitudes.

Lesson #3 is about stalls. Not those wings level power off stalls, but steeply banked accelerated stalls, landing and departure cross control stalls and elevator trim go around stalls.

Lesson #4 involves steep turns. During this lesson we focus on that infamous turn over the river accident in NYC. If the pilot had a do over, what might he have done differently?

Lesson #5, Emergency Spirals, Pushes and Pulls is a hoot. During this lesson we will answer the perennial question; When can I turn back to the airport if my engine quits during climb out?

Lesson #6 teaches you to fly the fabulous Chandelle, the exciting Wing Over and the misunderstood Forward Slip.

Lesson #7, Emergency off Field Landing, challenges your flying ability. Are you up too the challenge? If you where faced with this emergency, you would not get the chance for a do over.

Lesson #8 teaches spin recognition and spin recovery techniques. You will discover that early spin recognition and immediate recovery will place your airplane in an inverted attitude. Then you will absolutely amaze yourself as you apply the skill you learned in lesson #2 to recover from this sudden upset – and all that with less than 500 feet loss of altitude.

The complete course includes 8 hours of ground instruction and six hours of flight time in a Super Decathlon. Customers are encouraged to complete the course in 4 days flying two flights per day; however, a customer may find it more convenient to take one or more two lesson modules as stand alone topics.