Proceedings of the

The 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2023)
3 – 8 September 2023, Southampton, UK

Airfox Upset Prevention & Recovery Training (UPRT) Flight Simulation with Wake Vortex Encounter Events

Jonathan Pugh1,a, Mikhail Goman1,b, Nikolay Abramov1,c, Gianluca Borghini2, Ivan De Vissche3,d, Géraud Granger4,g, Elizabeth Humm5,i, Barry Kirwan3,e, Diana Moreno-Alarcon4,h, Simone Pozzi5,j and Frédéric Rooseleer3,g

1Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Media, De Montfort University Leicester, United Kingdom.

2Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

3EUROCONTROL, Centre du Bois des Bordes, Bretigny-sur-Orge, France.

4Safety Management Research Program, École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC), France.

5Deep Blue srl, Rome, Italy.

ABSTRACT

A multidisciplinary team of academics, flight safety experts, pilots, flight simulation engineers and human factors specialists adapted the Boeing 737 Next Gen simulator Airfox UPRT at AMST, Ranshofen, Austria to be capable to `inject' a variable wake vortex encounter (WVE) in cruise flight and measure the effect on a type-rated operating crew. As part of the EU SAFEMODE project (2019-2022), this was used to carry out a validation study for the use of new Air Traffic Control (ATC) cruise wake alerting procedures. Developed at DMU, the flight simulation model for the extended flight envelope allowed continuation of flight simulations in case of onset of high angles of attack and stall conditions following WVE. Along with facilitating the validation of new ATC procedures, the flight data also provided insights into pilot upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) in the era of recurrent academic and flight training for upset prevention and recovery.

Keywords: Flight simulation, Pilot training, Upset prevention and recovery, Wake vortex encounter.


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