CIVIL AVIATION

The NASTAR Center’s Advanced Pilot Training program represents a unique and progressive approach to cope with Loss of Control In-flight (LOC-I). Our training programs offer pilots the opportunity to gain the necessary knowledge and experience to handle all types of LOC-I situations. Whether you fly for a commercial transport carrier or on your own as a general aviation pilot, our Advanced Pilot Training program offers a full range of academics and flight experience needed to successfully combat LOC-I events.

Our in-house simulator allows you to explore the edges of the flight envelope in a safe and controlled environment. You will be able to learn the techniques necessary and demonstrate them in a manner that will give you the confidence and knowledge to react appropriately should you encounter an LOC-I event.

Simply, the NASTAR Center’s Advanced Pilot Training program provides a higher level of training than any other training program available today. Flight performance, controls, and instrumentation are infused with motion algorithms that allow pilots to explore the forces of flight like no other simulator. This high-fidelity simulator training is prefaced by academic training developed from the best resources available.

For UPRT, the focus is on Loss of Control In-Flight (LOC-I), the number one safety issue in aviation today. During the UPRT course, pilots receive academic and simulator training using our GYROLAB series of continuous G generating devices (CGD).

The CGD simulator allows pilots to experience the physiological and disorienting stresses of extreme attitude situations while also giving you the opportunity to experience G forces up to 3 G’s. Recreation of aircraft upsets, caused by any number of reasons such as human error, mechanical malfunctions, environmental conditions, and so on, allows aviators to safely explore the extremes of the flying envelope in order to develop the needed skills to prevent a disaster.

Ultimately, the goal of the NASTAR Center’s UPRT program is to increase an aviator’s situational awareness and airmanship so that if they encounter an upset condition, he or she can safely recover the aircraft to normal flight parameters.

Incidents involving hypoxia and sudden loss of cabin pressure are reviewed during the academic portion of our Altitude Awareness Course. Pilots engaged in this course, can also experience these potentially fatal circumstances in a safe and controlled manner. The ability to directly experience your unique hypoxia symptoms and learn how to react in a sudden decompression scenario are vital skills. Additionally, topics such as time of useful consciousness, effects of hypoxia on vision, and atmospheric physics are a part of this training course.

Spatial Disorientation, defined as a false sense of position and/or motion with respect to the Earth’s surface, unfortunately continues to claim lives throughout the spectrum of aviation. The NASTAR SD course gives pilots, no matter their skill level, the necessary understanding and practical experience to handle visual and vestibular illusions frequently encountered in flight.

Academic training covers topics such as the categories of SD, the human systems that contribute to our orientation, and how the limitations of the human body can present issues in flight. It is difficult to effectively replicate SD illusions safely in flight; fortunately, the unique training devices in place for Advance Pilot Training programs allow pilots to experience a multitude of visual and vestibular illusions in a safe and controlled environment. This training is sometimes overlooked in normal training programs, but the lessons learned here can certainly save your life.

Situational awareness is a crucial element in the flying world. The ever changing dynamics of the flight environment demand that one maintain good SA. The SA course presented is an academic only course; however, the skills learned must be applied when flying in our simulators or when flying your own aircraft. According to the United States Air Force, SA is a continuous perception of self and aircraft in relation to the dynamic environment of flight, threats and mission, and the ability to forecast, then execute tasks based on the perception. Our academics walk you through the critical elements of SA such as conscious and preconscious information processing, learned skill execution, and anomalies of attention. The course also includes many unfortunate real world examples of just how fatal loss of SA can be.