Unusual Aircraft Attitude Recovery Procedures, by Captain Warren VanderBurgh.

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An American Airlines Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program (AAMP) video about unusual aircraft recovery procedures, presented by Captain Warren VanderBurgh.
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[@aperson5210]

Sadly, Captain VanderBurgh passed away in 2016. RIP, he graced many pilots even to this day with his knowledge.

[@williampollock1274]

😢😢😢 He was a smart man.

[@jpsheffer]

13:30 "Good news is you can't be wrong!" I lost it. This guy's brilliant!

[@GeorgeTsiros]

not one stutter, not one "uuuh", this guy knows how to talk

[@ns81]

This guy is awesome. "That's the spin entry procedure." Ha!

[@officergregorystevens5765]

I love pre 9/11 optimism and positivity. You could feel the change in the atmosphere here in the US right after the event.

[@alukuhito]

Well, there is one for instructors teaching students how to recover from one.

[@alukuhito]

@@officergregorystevens5765 Wow, has American not recovered from that...

[@dankrhino]

@@alukuhito mentally, never recover. I’m Canadian and it still bugs me.

[@bluejay7058]

@@alukuhito No, not at all. There was a small but still existent presumption of innocence. Ever since 9/11, pretty much every American (public work or not) assumes the worst.

[@FLT111]

R.I.P Captain Warren VanderBurgh (1942-2016)

[@mayhempilot6158]

Watch the crash of American 587.

[@jesse00pno]

Awww. Sad. Natural causes or accident?

[@grantjohnston5817]

@jack torrence Pilot error my ass!

[@grantjohnston5817]

@jack torrence Again scapegoating the pilot!

[@grantjohnston5817]

@@maxhaines3794 Message received and understood.Ithink i ll walk over and out!

[@pilotactor777]

The best training vids out there-totally relevant today.Van knows his stuff, and every pilot should rewatch these lectures atleast twice a year.

[@SebastianWoodard]

I watch em all at least once a month. Every month, I hop in my home sim and practice some of these procedures.

[@pilotactor777]

@@SusanKay- wow-deservedly so!

[@pilotactor777]

@@SebastianWoodard -smart move.

[@SebastianWoodard]

@@pilotactor777 when I eventually am flying in the real world, I want as much experience handling every situation I possibly can.

[@flightcrewguidecom]

All credits go to American Airlines for allowing these videos to be online on this channel. They are such valuable training material!

[@Anonymous-pm7jf]

I dont know why I'm watching this. I work in healthcare.

[@southwest3671]

We would need you, if we don’t take heed what he has to say.

[@hook0076]

Wait same. Thanks KZbin

[@CraZy291]

because it's captivating

[@DaSwissy]

Same lol

[@squeezablemayonnaise8904]

Y'all work?

[@captainevans5840]

"Where did you get your flying license from" Me : KZbin

[@carlosbolivar5935]

You must be Pakistani

[@captainevans5840]

@@carlosbolivar5935 I am from bobs and vagene

[@brendanwood1540]

@@carlosbolivar5935 Your college professor is. They are outsourcing competence now too. It's easier to get people to violate our environmental laws at home when they are not from here. I couldn't think any other reason a gullible idiot should be in charge of municipal civil infrastructure. According to that gullible idiot the 'Popular Press' says that smokers who spit are causing more harm to the environment than burning fossil fuels. According to some tight candy ass from the 'Popular Press' who doesn't smoke and loves driving their car. Funny how competent people are taught that the POPULAR PRESS is not a VALID academic source.

[@22noobtube]

@@captainevans5840 😂😂😂

[@SpeedfreakUK]

Brendan Wood ...are you alright, mate?

[@hifiandrew]

Love these videos as a flying buff. What's interesting is I read a report on AA 587, the Airbus that crashed in Queens because the tail sheared off due to overuse of the rudder in wake turbulence. It seemed to fault in part the training in this very program, AAMP. But if you hear Van's warning at the end of the video, he clearly warns how powerful the rudder is and to not over apply it, much-less kick it back and forth like the 587 pilot did. At the time this video was made they didn't think you could shear the tail completely off but they were certainly clear about the power of the rudder. I don't think it was AAMP's fault, I think the pilot just over-controlled the rudder under stressful conditions.

[@apieceofdirt4681]

Yeah I agree. He warns about not over correcting but media always has a wonderful way of distorting everything. I just think the guy over used the rudder because he freaked out.

[@crazymonkeyVII]

I agree it's not their fault for this video. But from what I've heard he got training additional to this, where they put him in a simulator where if he didn't aggressively use the rudder an unrealistic upset would occur, to teach the trainee to take firm action or something. In any case, shit happened :/

[@officergregorystevens5765]

Around 20:30 he mentions that these are very powerful rudders and not to overapply them. At least he implies that.

[@TeemarkConvair]

my exact thought

[@googaagoogaa12345678]

has anyone found a segment talking about anything similar to what the co pilot was taught in this video just curious

[@rigilchrist]

Captain VanderBurgh's courses are really well constructed and he's a truly gifted presenter. I've learned a lot from them - and I'm just a humble private pilot of SEP. I'd also like to know where he buys his great shirts!

[@quadpumped34]

he "was" :( RIP Captain Vanderburgh.

[@alukuhito]

That's a great shirt? Is that sarcasm? Or does he wear nice shirts in other videos?

[@SebastianWoodard]

I'm trying to start flight training myself. My father was a pilot. H flew 737-200s and L188 electra's commercially. Flew UH-1s in Vietnam. He's flown a lot of things really. Told me a story of a prop separation into another engine on the L188 he was involved in at one point. H s my inspiration. Watching Captain Vanderburgh reminds me so much of him. I can watch his presentations all day.

[@kurtbyars766]

my first training as am ATP applicant I saw several of these and he's got to be the BEST instructor I've ever had ! and yes I'm rewatching all of him I can find !

[@macseagle5968]

I'm gonna use this information when I make some sweet jumps on my BMX bike.

[@RichardTuckman]

my left ear was lonely.

[@d3luz3]

President Goku i feel u, i'm deaf in it ;-;

[@Quasihamster]

The right one however was highly fascinated at the same time.

[@pfff-doh]

+Matt C2083 you could always turn on "stereo as mono" mode in the accessibility settings of your device

[@rorypenstock1763]

I have windows 10, and I went into the audio settings page titled "adjust volume" and turned on mono audio.

[@airbornepotato]

you need more right rudder in this video 👋

[@MentalParadox]

I'm watching this as a hardened airline vet who has 70 flight-hours in MFS 2020.

[@SebastianWoodard]

I've taken what I've learned through Capt. Vanderburghs presentations and practiced in the sim a lot.

[@thesauce7783]

but you cant stall in msfs2020

[@mariecornen2729]

Captain Warren advises “ judiscious use of rudder inputs” . He never advises aggressive inputs, merely fUll ‘Top rudder’. Contrary to some of the comments here,.. Great video.

[@kotezstudio]

The plane on a stick is almost as important to this presentation as to what he is saying. you not only understand what he is explaining but you visualize it at the same time.

[@officergregorystevens5765]

Yeah. As someone with nonverbal learning disorder that's always been a challenge. I don't fly irl, just simulators on and off for...15 years , about 10 steadily. (age 29). Anyway yea, you're definitely right.

[@jordanleng204]

Training aids are the best

[@jackg2630]

This guy is a full blown comedian and can recover any plane from any situation, love it

[@LA-hb4ue]

Could he have recovered from a flat spin?

[@oldmech619]

I lost my attitude indicator on IMC takeoff in my Mooney. It just slowly went over. They don’t train that way. None I didn’t follow it because nothing else was moving. Trust your instruments but verify. Saved my life. Good instructor

[@tomcorwine3091]

Good Lord, I’m glad you had the sense not to follow it. That would’ve killed many pilots. It’s so easy to focus on the attitude indicator and loose sight of all other instruments.

[@Jona69]

Can't wait to put my plane upside down in ms flight simulator 2020 and try to recover like this.

[@giganetom]

I'm gonna try this in Kerbal Space Program :)

[@manojbala6870]

38th minute never fails to impress me. Beautiful video. Thanks

[@DJTIMOPRODUCTION]

This is golden information thank you for posting this

[@kevincady5613]

Amazing instructor. This is the man you want up in front!

[@alexandersheppard1997]

My right ear really enjoyed this video.

[@Gurricha]

Thanks!

[@manojbala6870]

Wonderful video. Never gets old

[@jackg2630]

“Folks on the left side of the plane are probably getting a little exited”

[@picturemetrollin2093]

What I really got me thinking is that, “the folks on right side are still reading their newspaper.” That put in perspective how easy it is to lose special awareness in an aircraft.

[@noahwilliams8918]

The comments about the rudder...truly haunting. Only four years later, the F/O of an A300 would rip the tail off his aircraft by putting in too much rudder.

[@giggaba]

That was caused by multiple opposing inputs, not one full deflection

[@jondoyle44]

Great work AA. Unusual Attitudes at. 6:26 8:30 9:26 Sky POINTER Pitch Attitude Fixed AC symbol Ie.Nose high or nose low Horizon line

[@deeanna8448]

Why did I just watch this entire thing when I’m not a pilot, and have only a minimal grasp of what the flight co trolls do.?😆

[@GeorgeTsiros]

"i mean, understand, right here, if you jam full right rudder, that's the _spin entry procedure_ 😊" lost it right there

[@danilozanata1673]

Very good didactics

[@Rurik8118]

Great share !!

[@robertworm6469]

This is from the 90's, right? Very interesting. When he talks about the rudder, I thought: Some years later, American Airlines flight 587 crashed because of excessive alternating rudder input in wake turbulence. The report describes in detail how this could arise from the training (Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program). At least in THIS PART of the training, the instructor says the opposite: Because rudders are very powerful, apply it smoothly, wait for the plane to react. Well, if you learned (like the FO of AA587) that wake turbulence is so extremely dangerous and powerful, you may conclude that only full rudder can beat it.

[@ro19gat]

Robert Worm yes that’s true , but totally different scenario to Flt 587 , with that scenario There was no need to do what the pilot did , he just needed aileron deflection to control the roll what he did was stamp on the rudder hard and abruptly from stop to stop under takeoff power settings and so overloaded the tail, he actually says don’t kick the rudder! Exactly the opposite to what Flt 587 did

[@TheSpacecraftX]

Part of the problem with that pilot's training was that the simulator he trained in did not react the same way a plane does. It wouldn't immediately respond to sharp rudder input so he developed a habit of repeatedly wiggling it back and forth hard until it responded. It was this repeated motion that caused the forces on the vertical stabiliser to get so great.

[@Videos888]

@@TheSpacecraftX To me, this means that the simulator programming was unacceptable. They should have programmed the simulator to immediately stop if the plane is put into a situation that will cause it to break apart.

[@Cruz474]

I thought the same. Don’t fight the turbulence, wait until it causes the airplane to get into a situation that requires “unusual attitude recovery” then watch this video. And don’t stomp the rudder.

[@VasiliskGUU]

He is so awesome!

[@miketaylor3947]

Awesome vid!

[@manojbala6870]

I sent a trainee the children of magenta video. Thank you sir, one of the best video I’d seen. This presentation is airmanship at its best. I know he’s no more but things he did for aviation is ineffable Edit: Suzy’s lips never lies. It’s not sexist but you don’t want cross controls at high Aoa

[@jamesmcglough5985]

@11:20 perfect reasoning of what might have happened in the recent Indonesian crash. Autothrottle causing bank to left (when autopilot trying to go right) pilot trying to correct with heading select or something. Just needed to get a hold of it

[@Videos888]

Yes that is a good example of what this type of training was trying to prevent. My understanding of that Indonesian incident is that the pilot turned the plane in the wrong direction once he started manually flying it. Maybe a video like this could have saved their lives.

[@Misscarverfan1212]

In response to being an avid R/C Model pilot for over 10 years, I can say having recently obtained my PPL, I would be far less comfortable in a real aircraft upset than say handling a model in an upset. You have to be very " Ahead of the airplane " to know exactly what to do. In a real aircraft, it is very easy to panic, and make the wrong choice. Flying is not natural, man was not made to fly, therefore you have to become familiar with being ahead of your aircraft, and even more so, ahead of your own emotions.

[@pfsantos007]

Just found this video. The thumbs up-down ratio says it all. Excellent video.

[@VarunKumar-wf9gg]

Gold.

[@thetreblerebel]

The " Oh Shhhhhh Shoot Zone"...indeed

[@vic771]

I can dig it...

[@notgreatnotterribleflying9285]

I'm not interested in piloting but I've just watched the whole video

[@byronhenry6518]

Now in case both of us up front keel over at the same time you are slightly more prepared!

[@johntyrone307]

Fantastic lecture.

[@LanceWinslow]

"Fly the airplane first"

[@adriananzano2292]

this guy is a legend.

[@mdb831]

This guy is awesome.

[@fhuber7507]

We are moving away from "Pilots" toward "seat occupants" in the cockpit. More reliance on automation and less actual flying skill.

[@needicecream100]

That's been an excellent thing for safety, in net, though.

[@ravener96]

Most accidents are due to bad flying skill, automation will have saved a huge population of what would be pilot error accidents

[@alukuhito]

One of my flight instructors was talking about how great it will be in the future when he works for an airline because it's basically a desk job. I was thinking, "You actually WANT a desk job?" Anyway, he is one now.

[@Shattertry]

@@needicecream100 There will be less accidents in total (given all new aircrafts get these systems by default and not as a costly option), but the couple accidents that will inevitably happen will be most of times the fault of automation and over-reliance upon it. I am with the sentiment that people will be more shocked about such a kind of accidents. Look at the outcry about the 737 MAX crashes. To me, Captain Vanderburgh is totally right about the first unwritten rule of recovery procedures (this should also apply to other means of transportation): if your machine goes off-track, disable all automatic systems, because you cannot exactly know which one is faulty at the time. The faulty one has no awareness of its abnormal operation, otherwise it would have corrected its course of action or stopped altogether.

[@itsr1p]

Me: *Wishing I had a pilot license* KZbin: "Here's your first lesson"

[@matthewrossilini5808]

The "Fff....." zone... lmao

[@matthewrossilini5808]

This guy is a great teacher

[@apache1234657]

26:20 densel washington in flight was wrong

[@antonove-1752]

420apache657 cool profile pic!

[@Vass22]

420apache657 everything in that movie was wrong.

[@doyoulikedags3534]

They tried to do this in the real life incident that inspired the one in flight though see Alaska 261

[@doyoulikedags3534]

Also, in that movie the nose trim was pitched full down. That's what put the plane in a dive in the first place.

[@bugalaman]

You can with cocaine, though. The movie proves this.

[@leddaudet2350]

My right ear really enjoyed the video...

[@pascalcoole2725]

This guy did just wat a good training captain should do, thats spending lot of time in the simulator to figure out abnormal situations. I for myselve (not being a training capt.) had the oppertunety to do this eventualy being able ta get almost out of any weird situation and have a verry good understandig of the systems of the aircraft types involved. However.. unfortunately these days aviation is all about costs and training is generaly seen as an unpleasant investment...basicly thats what Capt. Sullenberger also indicated.

[@rnapol3266]

This is SO GOOD, thanks! - from a c172 pilot PPL guy

[@grantjohnston5817]

Great teacher!If I had teachers like this in scool I might have lurned something!

[@mikearakelian6368]

I don't have jet time; but makes sense to me... No one wants to hit the dirt @ 400 knots...

[@AlexRossiharmonica]

cool

[@nyonor7314]

Крутой дядька

[@MariaZiadieHaddad]

RIP... Good stuff!

[@kevincady5613]

I actually understand what he is talking about and I’m not a pilot. Remember all the components to move your aircraft around are just small wings themselves including the prop on small aircraft. Dependent of angle they all lift in the upward position. That is why a rudder at 90 has lift away from ground

[@officeboy8095]

nyimak captain!

[@dudbike]

What I have never understood is why don't they have a mechanical ball type indicator as backup. Stick one to the dash and no matter if you have a failure it is always there.

[@pilotavery]

Usually they have 2 pfds so you glance at the other side. Then there's a backup one.

[@jorgepadua5802]

I don't know jack shit about planes but I feel like I understand everything he tells me.

[@JETZcorp]

Henry Winkler really seems to know what he's talking about.

[@muimasmacho]

*Yee haw! Whooo doggies!* *Put another quarter init daddy!* *I'na go agin!*

[@darylaglae5446]

Best 38mins invested in my life.. 🙌

[@skychaserA330]

The truth at 11'.... disconnect AP & ATHR

[@omnoplea]

Please can the next course be about Unusual Female Attitude Recovery Procedures, thanks.

[@neutralspace-ishguy]

Ball attitude indicator? Is that the round analog ones or the Flight Director/Attitude Indicator used in spacecraft?

[@lamportnholt9509]

POWER/BANK/ PITCH ...?

[@josephs3973]

I love how the video is about recovering aircraft from unusual attitudes but the title and the description is about recovering unusual aircraft... like what, an ekranoplan?

[@jarikinnunen1718]

How often does an airplane reach the roof down with autopilot? Where are the passengers then and during the recovery? Most of times cause of this situations are technical fault and/or pilots disorientation.

[@Videos888]

Obviously it is very rare for these things to happen but if the pilots are trained for these cases it could end up saving hundreds of lives.

[@ammarishere1692]

I’m a geologist. I don’t know why I’m watching this

[@superconnie5003]

Do modern airlines have this type of lecture?

[@byronhenry6518]

Yes, and we do it in the simulator during initial training and recurrent training once every 6 months to a year (depending on the airline). I can only speak for U.S airlines but I imagine airlines in other developed countries do the same. Can’t speak for janky/sketchy airlines in other countries.

[@NikanDragosysSerpenDra]

today i was also thought the spin entry procedure. Guys watchout with the Xtreme 3D pro Z axis LOL better to leave that rudder center

[@a3bilbaneo842]

29:50 Is the MD-11 rudder THAT effective as he says? Comparable to other aircraft it is very small due to the center engine below it.

[@karlosbricks2413]

The vertical stabiliser is small, but the control surface of the ruddar is quite large, in part to compensate for the relatively small vertical stabiliser caused by the stretch required to create the MD-11, while also keeping development costs long, it is in effect a bodge to try and even out the small tail plane, by making a bigger part of it incorporated into the rudder.

[@fourfourfoureightyfour23]

72-a-saurus hahaha

[@citizenblue]

This should be required study for all 737 Max Pilots

[@itsumonihon]

it should be required study for all pilots, period. i can't even count the number of accidents that would have been prevented in the last 10 years if the crews involved had all taken this training.

[@RodrigoRamirez-eq6gj]

And Air France pilots too

[@bmused55]

The pilots of Adam Air Flight 574 could have done with a session like this. They let their plane drift into a right wing, nose down attitude and the captain's recovery attempt was to pull back on the yoke, making it worse. At no point did he try to level the wings :(

[@AaaBbb-ff1pn]

Some test pilots end up "inverted" for md80/boeing 717 ,but recover it in time. Check the video,is impressive! After he got inverted he made the mistake to pull ,so the plane point straight to the ground!!

[@zeker80]

Ok give me the keys Im ready

[@BobDenny]

Everyone(!!) should learn to fly in the glider, and return to the glider yearly, including the "crazy attitudes" which are meat and potatoes of glider flying. Imagine recovering from a cross-control stall/spin on instruments.

[@eriktruchinskas3747]

So is this what the Dupont guy was doing before he started a wrestling training camp and shot that guy?

[@TheBluBalls]

Not even a pilot, but I sure hope I don't let him down.

[@spd_bird]

He's explaining all of the procedures that I use to fly aircraft in FSX

[@a-nus]

Why is it in mono, panned all the way to the right? Would've taken 30 seconds to fix it.

[@flightcrewguidecom]

Thanks for taking the time to write this remark.
 We made restored versions of all the Capt. VanderBurgh videos on the channel, see in description also. Part One: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqSYhYyPoa6hm9E Part Two: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZSzXmqin7OFba8 Fly safe!

[@a-nus]

@@flightcrewguidecom thank you

[@GZA036]

push roll pull

[@pilotactor777]

click click, click click.

[@nyonor7314]

I am waiting for 18th of august. And u?

[@germantobon5498]

Does this still hold true? Maybe not after the vertical stabilizer was lost in that american A300

[@MrEurocup]

35:57

[@zaytoony]

beautifully answered and summed up in a timestamp, bravo!@@MrEurocup

[@aboubecrinebiha6147]

Aviation's god himself!

[@EricHeston98]

i want this guy to be flying my plane

[@ChernobylPizza]

So many of these basic flying instructions seem so obvious to flight simulator buffs. For us it's obvious what to do if you're upside down at an angle: you push forward on the stick and roll to get your wings level. I mean who hasn't flown a 747 upside down at low altitude in FSX? But for a real pilot, they've probably never even thought about it. Some of them panic and pull back on the stick.

[@Vass22]

Easy for us to say.

[@windshearahead7012]

ChernobylPizza that depends on the plane and the how you got in the X position. If you fly a T tail plane thats upside down and about to nose dive, you won’t have control on the elevators to roll and immediately pull out of the dive. You would have to let the nose drop and gain speed to pull out of it

[@Jerram89]

Blog it

[@YouDingo88]

For a more realistic experience, strap yourself to your flight simulator screen and chair, roll upside down with it, preferably near the edge of your balcony with the street down there waiting to flatten you, and then do your "obvious" moves in sequence, i.e. yell at your buddy to rope you back in, with explicit instructions to let you go if he senses any panic in you.

[@CMDRSweeper]

A few things behaves strangely in the simulator, I mean you can keep a 777 flying inverted, you try that in a properly simulated one it will fall out of the sky. (Of course the flight computer have to be disconnected to pull of that stunt.) But also we do not have to contend with the nasty G forces and hanging upside down that these guys in the real deal would have.

[@johnjohnjohnh]

my right ear has a lot of knowledge on this situation now

[@jemand8462]

famous last words of a pilot before crash? "we'll do recovery in a second"

[@KC_FlightChief]

This video saved my life once during a FSX flight out of North Korea.

[@chrisjones3296]

I rode on a centrifuge!

[@dwaipayandattaroy9801]

I got your back for nose high and low determination the layman way apart from my normal perception without an easy equipments, it install a 3 inch glass cylinder with murcery in it, and the cylinder will have 3 concave notch along its base, at every inch, (1___2__ 3), fixed at the ceilling of the mid cockpit pointing the end 1 towards the nose of the aeroplane, so its like mercury could be in slot 1, 2 or 3, dependind on nose down , horizontal or nose up stall of the craft.

[@tomcorwine3091]

That isn’t going to work. Anything gravity based is going to be influenced by g-forces. A gyroscope is the only thing that will show true attitude.

[@randalljames1]

Does this make me qualified when the flight attendant runs off the flight deck asking for help? :)

[@flybobbie1449]

Serving coffee is not that hard.

[@southwest3671]

I didn’t realized Henry Winkler was an instructor.

[@alukuhito]

Hey...

[@patriapatria4601]

Hello, Infinite Flight Community :). Make sure to post in community forum on your thoughts :). Have a good day.