Advanced Courses

All aircraft specific training is accomplished using Manufacturers Procedures, Training includes loggable approaches under 61.57(c)(2).

Jet & Turboprop

The Single Pilot Training Course for Jet Operations is designed specifically for pilots who operate either Jet or Turboprop aircraft with only one pilot crew member. This is an advanced training course covering selected core subjects statistically shown to pose risk to single-pilot operations.

The course introduces advanced concepts and techniques targeting risks and the management of those risks during single-pilot operations. The course contains academic material and tasks selected for the pilot who operates in an FAR Part 91 regulatory environment.

This course provides the appropriate structure for professional pilots whose risk management needs extend beyond the techniques advanced during a normal type rating course. It presumes a high level of systems and procedural knowledge, combined with instrument proficiency and recency, as defined under FAR 61.57.

Pilots completing this course will be better prepared to meet the exceptional demands of piloting a high-performance Jet or Turboprop aircraft in a single pilot environment. Pilots who do significant amounts of personal flying using single-pilot may find this course provides the knowledge needed to improve the risk management of their flying.

All aircraft specific training is accomplished using Manufacturers Procedures, Training includes loggable approaches under 61.57(c)(2).

Automation Over-Dependence

Modern aircraft are increasingly being manufactured with ever-increasing levels of automation. This course is designed to address the progressive and insidious loss of manual instrument skills by pilots of highly automated aircraft.

This training contains academic training integrated with simulator-based flight training designed specifically to address eroding instrument skills while operating modern automated aircraft. Highly automation-dependent scenarios form the core of this training with loss of automation occurring during critical phases of flight.

Simulator flight lessons are preceded by an appropriate academic instruction session. This course involves specialty training developed to increase pilots' knowledge of the various modes of failure being experienced in highly automated aircraft and the actual and potential consequences.

The academic portion of the course also covers the development of automation over time and reviews two major FAA reports addressing crew feedback after being involved in an accident or incident where the loss of manual skill is considered a factor.

The pilot will refresh and re-acquire the procedural knowledge and manual instrument flying skills and aeronautical experience needed to offset the erosion of manual instrument skills. This Course includes Multi-Crew Procedures, CRM, and CFIT Tasks designed to exercise and renew the skills required to operate in a Crew Flown aircraft with emphasis on automation failures.

This training requires flying substantial RAW DATA instruments and simulates loss of Automation during critical phases of flight when the ability to revert to manual skills is imperative.

All aircraft specific training is accomplished using Manufacturers Procedures, Training includes loggable approaches under 61.57(c)(2).

Upset / Loss of Control

Loss of control continues to be a leading cause of aircraft accidents and death. Upset or stall can lead to loss of control. The FAA places very high emphasis on the prevention of loss of control and recovery from aircraft attitudes and conditions that frequently result in loss of control.

The pilot will learn the definition of upset conditions and will learn the aerodynamic and energy considerations for upset conditions and how to recover from an upset.

The pilot will refresh and re-acquire the procedural knowledge and manual instrument flying skills and aeronautical experience needed to offset the erosion of manual instrument skills. This Course includes Multi-Crew Procedures, CRM, and CFIT Tasks designed to exercise and renew the skills required to operate in a Crew Flown aircraft with emphasis on automation failures.

This training requires flying substantial RAW DATA instruments and simulates loss of Automation during critical phases of flight when the ability to revert to manual skills is imperative.

Simulator training will expose the pilot to upset conditions that are within the capability of the simulator (AATD) and will allow the pilot to practice procedural steps associated with recovery from the most frequently encountered conditions, the majority of which cannot be safely performed in any aircraft certified in the Normal or Transport Category.