Toronto AIAA Loss of Control Sessions

[PEI_3721]

Having had opportunity to read Don Bateman’s paper; the statistics relating to ‘cause’ are dominated by disorientation.
The primary defence against disorientation (avoidance and/or recovery) is ‘always trust the instruments’. See the automation thread here and onwards: - http://www.pprune.org/safety-crm-qa-...ml#post5096487

Accepting the need for good instrument flying skills as a perquisite for upset avoidance or recovery (trust the instruments) then it is concerning to read evidence of weaknesses in these skills. http://flightsafety.org/asw/jul10/asw_jul10_p30-34.pdf
I wonder if this is at the root of LOC problems?

Do you really fly on instruments when monitoring automatics?

Also I have this thought:– can disorientation avoidance/recovery ever be taught without first being disorientated?

From my own experiences I don’t think that it can.