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Old 13th November 2011 | 14:52
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All of the presentations given at the EASA conference are available from EASA Safety Conference: Staying in Control - Loss-of-Control (LoC) Prevention and Recovery - 'Presentations'
The one relating to the video is in the ‘Wednesday 3rd session’ folder.

As noted by A37575 the subject is near exhaustion, which might indicate that the industry is overlooking some significant points.
Accidents involving loc have multiple contributing factors, and in many, the inability to recover is secondary to the reasons as to why the situation occurred.
It is probably impossible to ensure that every pilot (at least Capts) will have sufficient loc training to cope with the ‘once in a lifetime’ rare situation requiring action, and even then the situation (circumstance) is more likely to be one that has not been considered. Furthermore, it’s likely that the stress on human behaviour in such surprising circumstances might result in erroneous situation assessment or choice of action.

It might be of greater benefit – safety and commercial, if the industry considered the precursors to the accidents and the factors which generated the pre loc situation.
There could be major benefits from reviewing normal operations. For every situation resulting in a loc incident there are many similar ones which crews are able to manage successfully in everyday operations. We should be trying to understand these aspects, to reinforce the awareness, the behaviours, and the control of the situation before it deteriorates. These contribute to safe normal operation, normal flying, and normal (average) behaviour of a crew – not just an individual.
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