UPRT

Why does that distinction matter so much for upset training specifically?

Because UPRT isn't just about pulling off aggressive maneuvers.

It encompasses prevention, recognition, and recovery.

That means understanding the flight envelope, catching a developing loss of control threat, recognizing bad control inputs or energy states, and managing disorientation.

Let's do a quick recap for listeners.

Side-by-side seating supports better instructor observation, earlier correction, and clearer communication if something breaks down.

Tandem aircraft bring bigger maneuvering envelopes and remain valuable for advanced aerobatics or certain UPRT courses.

And, um, aircraft like the Grob 115D2 and 115E combine strong visibility with basic aerobatic capability, so instructors get both worlds without giving up the ability to closely monitor a student.

Yes.

And I wrote that as the president of the UPRT network, but we got to invest in a pilot.

I don't think we're investing enough in the pilot.

I don't think we're investing enough in Brown training.

But I'm always thinking in the background, Does the guy who's buying all this understand how to work at all? Are they reading all the documentation that goes with it? Are they reading the instructions? Do they know what all the enunciators are? Do they know what all the knobs do? Or are they just as skill limited as they were before with a six-pack panel? Like, I don't know.

It's a unique, it's a quandary.

And I have addressed it in the most recent Sport aerobatics issue in IAC, at least from my perspective, UPRT perspective, investing in the pilot, not the panel.

There's no amount of technology that will cover all the bad situations because right after takeoff, you got no avionics.

So I became a flight instructor, and that's probably the best sort of, uh, decision I ever made because that was really fun, and I've really been enjoying it.

So I've been working for OSM, started as an instructor, and then worked through like every instructor do, SFBO, IFR, multi-engine, UPRTI, becoming examiner, doing that whole track and loving it so much, especially passion for teaching in general.

That's, that's just become a big passion of mine.

So that's sort of how I ended up staying for quite a lot of years and still work here.

So, yeah.

And then, yeah, we had about 40 folks show up to the UPRT network presentations.

We had Juan Brown showed up and hung out with us in the crowd and sat in for one and then.

Mike Ginter from AOPA, he runs the Air Safety Institute, and he sat in for one.

So it was real nice to get some attention and know that we're doing some good stuff.

We released our results from our little grassroots survey that we did.

We got about 70 participants, and it basically showed that overall pilot opinion felt that prior to UPRT, that, yeah, I'm okay, I'm good, I think I can do this.

Yeah, you know, my training was okay to after UPRT training.