Duration

3 days

Course Description

The All Attitude High Altitude Jet UPRT course provides the tools needed to understand the unique characteristics of low speed, high altitude, and high speed flight.  Academics focus on the entire aircraft envelope to include slow speed flight as well as the high altitude and high speed environment and the associated effects on upsets.  Subsonic and transonic aerodynamics are reviewed and flying qualities in those flight regimes are discussed.  Aircraft specific training, familiarization, flight briefings and debriefings ensure student learning outcomes are achieved. Stall recoveries and Upset prevention and recovery in these unique flight regimes are flown. Flight training includes one flight each in the MB-326 Impala and the Sabreliner.

Each student will:

Receive 7 hours of academic training to include

• • UPRT Introduction
  • Subsonic Aerodynamics review
  • Aircraft Limits, certification criteria and how that fits into upsets
  • Propulsion
  • Stability and Control
  • Digital flight controls
  • Energy management and lift vector control
  • Basic maneuver toolbox and recovery techniques
  • High altitude and high speed environment and performance effects
  • Transonic and supersonic aerodynamics
  • Transonic and supersonic flying qualities
  • Human Physiology and Upset causal factors
  • High performance operational considerations and case studies
  • Course wrap-up and debrief

Receive approximately 10 hours of aircraft/flight specific ground training, flight briefings and debriefings:

• • Flight gear fitting
  • Aircraft specific ground training
  • Ejection seat training (Impala only)
  • Aircraft specific cockpit familiarization
  • Local area familiarization
  • Flight briefings and debriefings

Receive one flight each of approximately 1 hour in the MB-326 Impala and 1 1/2 hours in the Sabreliner for flight demonstration and practice of:

• • Familiarization with the aircraft and airspace
  • All-attitude flying (Impala)
  • Approach to stalls, 1G stalls, and accelerated stalls
  • Stalls on autopilot and simulated IMC (Sabreliner)
  • Reduced stability and other flight effects at high altitude
  • Aircraft effects approaching the Mach buffet
  • High altitude approach to stalls
  • Unusual attitude recoveries
  • Lift vector control and energy management
  • Transonic flight effects
  • Upset recognition training
  • Upset recovery training
  • Emergency descent profile
  • Simulated flameout approach