# PI.VI.H — Recovery from Unusual Flight Attitudes — Flight Instructor – Instrument Powered Lift ACS

> PI.VI.H from FAA-S-ACS-28, including the official objective, references, notes, and 16 exact knowledge, risk-management, and skill descriptions.

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## Official Task context

- FAA document: Flight Instructor – Instrument Rating Powered-Lift Airman Certification Standards
- Identifier: FAA-S-ACS-28
- Published source date: November 2023
- Aircraft category: Powered Lift
- Certificate or rating: Flight Instructor – Instrument
- Area of Operation: Area of Operation VI. Flight by Reference to Instruments
- Task: Task H. Recovery from Unusual Flight Attitudes
- Task code prefix: PI.VI.H
- Official references: FAA-H-8083-2, FAA-H-8083-9, FAA-H-8083-15, FAA-H-8083-25; Flight Manual
- FAA source library: https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs

## Official Task objective

To determine the applicant understands attitude instrument flying while recovering from unusual attitudes, can apply that knowledge, manage associated risks, demonstrate appropriate skills, and provide effective instruction, solely by reference to instruments.

## Knowledge elements

- **PI.VI.H.K1** — Prevention of unusual attitudes, including flight causal, physiological, and environmental factors, and system and equipment failures.
- **PI.VI.H.K2** — Full panel and partial panel procedures for recovery from unusual attitudes in flight.
- **PI.VI.H.K3** — Procedures available to safely regain visual meteorological conditions (VMC) after flight into inadvertent instrument meteorological conditions or unintended instrument meteorological conditions (IIMC)/(UIMC).
- **PI.VI.H.K4** — Appropriate use of automation, if applicable.
- **PI.VI.H.K5** — Common errors related to this Task.

## Risk management elements

- **PI.VI.H.R1** — Situations that could lead to loss of control in-flight (LOC-I) or unusual attitudes in-flight (e.g., stress, task saturation, inadequate instrument scan distractions, and spatial disorientation).
- **PI.VI.H.R2** — Assessment of the unusual attitude.
- **PI.VI.H.R3** — Control input errors, inducing undesired aircraft attitudes.
- **PI.VI.H.R4** — Collision hazards.
- **PI.VI.H.R5** — Distractions, task prioritization, loss of situational awareness, or disorientation.
- **PI.VI.H.R6** — Interpreting flight instruments.
- **PI.VI.H.R7** — Control application solely by reference to instruments.
- **PI.VI.H.R8** — Operating envelope considerations.

## Skills elements

- **PI.VI.H.S1** — Use proper instrument cross-check and interpretation to identify an unusual attitude (including both nose-high and nose-low) in flight, and apply the appropriate flight control, power input, and aircraft configuration in the correct sequence, to return to a stabilized level flight attitude.
- **PI.VI.H.S2** — Use single-pilot resource management (SRM) or crew resource management (CRM), as appropriate.
- **PI.VI.H.S3** — Analyze and correct common errors related to this Task.

## Difficulty methodology

Difficulty calibration is ongoing for this Task. Observed difficulty is a privacy-thresholded check-ride.ai mock-oral practice proxy, not an FAA practical-test pass or fail rate. Underlying sample sizes and the private reporting threshold are not published.

## Official Task notes

- Note: See Appendix 3: Aircraft, Equipment, and Operational Requirements & Limitations for information related to this Task.

## Use in practice

A mock examiner can ask a pilot to explain the published elements, apply them to the configured aircraft and airport context, identify risks, and defend a decision. Practice prompts are not represented as actual FAA examiner scripts or predictions of the questions a candidate will receive.