You are alarmed at your situation. Your problem is that you don't have time to think this through. Action is needed now. Do something!
In aviation, this is called an upset. The aeroplane has been knocked off a nice straightand-level and you need execute a plan to get it back there safely. Your problem is that no-one has ever taught you how to do that.
Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) is not taught as part of ab initio training. An instructor is likely to run through some unusual attitudes, but generally these exercises don't venture anywhere near the perimeters of the flight envelope.
And that is what the Australian Flight Training Industry Association (AFTIA) and 2022 Flying Training Organisation of the Year UPRT Australia are trying to correct. Both believe that UPRT represents basic flying skills, the lack of which contributes to loss-of-control (LoC) incidents in flight.
"The stats are still very strong globally around these accidents," says UPRT Australia’s Shane Tobin, "they're still the highest cause of fatalities by a large margin. In the last 10 years in jet aircraft, they've accounted for the same as every other kind of accident combined.
"Turbo-props are five times more likely to encounter this, and 47% of fatalities in GA in
