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An instructor pilot reported that his foreign student pilot pitched up 30 degrees while flying in heavy IMC weather because he attempted to avoid weather visually without referencing attitude instruments.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 864435 |
| Time | |
| Date | 200912 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.ARTCC |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | IMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Transport Low Wing 2 Turboprop Eng |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Route In Use | Vectors |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Instructor Pilot Not Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Flight Engineer Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 100 Flight Crew Total 28000 Flight Crew Type 500 |
| Person 2 | |
| Function | Trainee |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude Deviation - Procedural Clearance Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
We were cleared to 11;000 ft by ATC and told we could deviate around weather as required. I was instructing a low time foreign student. The language was big factor as we were in turbulence and IMC. The student was trying to avoid heavy rain and was looking outside where there was no reference. He got disoriented and pulled the nose up quite rapidly and 30+ nose up. By this time we recovered from the resulting unusual attitude; we had climbed over 1000 ft from our assigned altitude; ATC queried and gave us a higher altitude. We complied and climbed to 15;000 ft. No conflicts resulted and ATC was not upset; in fact they were extremely helpful during a bad situation.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: An instructor pilot reported that his foreign student pilot pitched up 30 degrees while flying in heavy IMC weather because he attempted to avoid weather visually without referencing attitude instruments.
Narrative: We were cleared to 11;000 FT by ATC and told we could deviate around weather as required. I was instructing a low time foreign student. The language was big factor as we were in turbulence and IMC. The student was trying to avoid heavy rain and was looking outside where there was no reference. He got disoriented and pulled the nose up quite rapidly and 30+ nose up. By this time we recovered from the resulting unusual attitude; we had climbed over 1000 FT from our assigned altitude; ATC queried and gave us a higher altitude. We complied and climbed to 15;000 FT. No conflicts resulted and ATC was not upset; in fact they were extremely helpful during a bad situation.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.