До питання навчання льотчика штопору

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of training corkscrew for aviation pilots of the Air Force of Ukraine. Back in Soviet times, a corkscrew as a fi gure of aerobatics in the combat units of the Air Force was prohibited. The ban was due to numerous accidents and disasters associated with the difficulties of withdrawing a modern fighter jet from a tailspin. A spin is a special category of stall resulting in autorotation (uncommanded roll) about the aircraft longitudinal axis and a shallow, rotating, downward path approximately centred on a vertical axis. Spins can be entered intentionally or unintentionally, from any flight attitude if the aircraft has sufficient yaw while at the stall point. However, the opinions of the flight crew were divided. Part of the leading flight crews and especially test pilots believed that the lack of skills in piloting an airplane in a tailspin doomed a pilot who got into a tailspin to an imminent flight accident. However, the statistics of aircraft losses during training flights on a corkscrew testified in favor of the ban. The pilot then just will not be afraid of a corkscrew, when he learns to feel closer to stalling and in practice makes sure that it is possible to prevent a corkscrew, as well as take the plane out of it. Such training will increase the “sense of piloting” and the ability to perceive the spatial position, which can serve well if you accidentally fall into an unusual position relative to the ground. Any position of the aircraft in the air should not be for the pilot incomprehensible and frightening, he must be able, without getting lost, to withdraw from it (of course, if there is clearance). Due to the fact that today there are proposals to resume training pilots corkscrew authors decided to recall the difficulties that the learning process may encounter in flight on a tailspin.