ACS PA.VIII.E

Prevention of unusual attitudes, including flight causal, physiological, and environmental factors, and system and equipment failures.

Procedures for recovery from unusual attitudes in flight.

Procedures available to safely regain visual meteorological conditions (VMC) after flight into inadvertent instrument meteorological conditions or unintended instrument meteorological conditions (IIMC)/(UIMC).

Appropriate use of automation, if applicable.

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).

Collision hazards.

Distractions, task prioritization, loss of situational awareness, or disorientation.

Interpreting flight instruments.

Operating envelope considerations.

Control input errors, inducing undesired aircraft attitudes.

Assessment of the unusual attitude.

Control application solely by reference to instruments. Private Pilot for Airplane Category ACS (FAA-S-ACS-6C)50

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.

Use single-pilot resource management (SRM) or crew resource management (CRM), as appropriate.