Severe wake turbulence encounters. Your experiences.
During type rating training in flight simulators, the syllabus as approved by State regulators is usually based upon the manufacturer's course albeit with local modifications. Typically it includes 8-10 full flight sessions of four hours each shared between two crew. Depending on any spare time available there is usually time for additional sequences not in the syllabus of training but that can also depend on the experience and personal enthusiasm of the instructor. Some can't get out of the simulator fast enough while others enjoy talking to their students after essential debriefing.
In recent times, unusual attitude recoveries are part of the type rating syllabus while these also may be left to future recurrent training simulator sessions. Wake turbulence encounters in IMC are rarely introduced in simulator training although candidates are expected to know the theory.
Rarely do we read published incident reports on wake turbulence encounters even though they probably happen often around the world although with not necessarily fatal results. Because of this paucity of incident reports, it becomes difficult for a simulator instructor to talk from experience, leaving him to perhaps draw on his own recollections from long ago in a light aircraft. In fact it may be he has never experienced a serious encounter with wake turbulence. For example, although very experienced in jet transports I have never run into an alarming case of wake turbulence.
It would be greatly appreciated if Pprune contributors could spare the time to place on this thread details of their encounters so that simulator instructors and current pilots could learn from them. If possible detail type of aircraft you were flying and the type that caused the wake turbulence, the unexpectedness of the encounter, altitude, configuration, and angles of bank and pitch attitude reached before recovery was effected. IMC or VMC.
From your descriptions, type rating candidates can read about real life examples and then see these in the simulator and be taught safest recovery techniques. With low experience pilots being employed world wide due to hiring policies, their first experience of a severe wake turbulence encounter is liable to be quite frightening especially in IMC or at night. A picture is worth a thousand words and it is in the simulator where the picture starts.
Thanks for offering your time, if you feel so inclined