While I agree with Mr Shröder on the training issues concerning recovery from unusual attitudes (Flight International, 11-17 December), I believe that aerobatic and/or glider flying during initial flight training could be part of the solution.
Both mean flight attitudes which the average airline pilot would find unusual, initiation of manoeuvres and recovery from those attitudes and co-ordinated control response.
On top of that, exposure to unusual flight attitudes will make a pilot less fearful and remove any element of surprise. The naturalness of smooth and firm handling of aircraft in all three axes is most easily acquired if given in basic flight training and like almost all forms of learning, behaviour trained at an early stage will become second nature and not forgotten easily.
Peter KrausHamburg, Germany
Source: Flight International
