Yup, One of my favorite "tricks" in UA training it to rotate the "bar" full
up while the student has his head in his lap to see how much reliability the
student has on the AI and can figure out that it has "failed". IOW, can he
do a cross check quickly enough, you know, like before we hit the surface
would be nice. I get an amazing number nail the horizon and take way too
much time still going down before they put it together. The good news is, I
never caught anyone twice.

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Regards, BobF.
"Barry" wrote in message
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Power off
Level the wings
nose to the horizon
power to hold nose on the horizon

I agree with the sequence, but don't forget that the attitude indictor
might be wrong. In fact, an instrument or vacuum failure is a likely
cause of getting into an unusual attitude in the first place.

The IR PTS used to specify that the unusual attitude recovery be done
partial panel, but this was apparently changed in the last revision. I
think that instrument students should be taught to recover from unusual
attitudes without the attitude indicator - use turn coordinator for bank,
and airspeed/VSI for pitch. Once things are under control, then check the
AI and see if it agrees.

On an instrument proficiency check, I like to do unusual attitude recovery
near the end. I cover the attitude indicator while the pilot has his eyes
closed, have him recover, then continue on partial panel and do the
partial panel approach. You can only surprise a pilot once with this, but
it can be effective. If a simulator or ground trainer is available and
you can fail instruments, that's much better.

Barry