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.