Originally Posted by
Centaurus
It is rapidly developing into yet another cottage industry like CRM, TEM and their ilk. Two days in the classroom is an overkill; unless of course you are trying to make a buck out of it. You can easily cover the subject in two hours. You also only need an hour in the simulator with a competent instructor who knows what he is talking about. There are only so many UA's you can get into and the basic theory of recovery applies to most.. After all it is only flight instrument interpretation.
From my experience teaching acro and upset training in the actual airplane, I think the right answer for classroom work is somewhere in the middle of the 2 hour and 2 day figures. But for the amount of training time in the sim or airplane, I vehemently disagree with this. What's necessary to inculcate into the student is far, far more than "only flight instrument interpretation" (other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?") And a mere hour is worth next to nothing. There's only hope in sustained and repeated practice.
Orienting one's mind is much harder than it sounds, and what one is taught as the right course of action in an upset situation is easily overwhelmed by incorrect instinct (usually to pull back on the yoke and Split-S out.)