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During recovery from an unusual nose-high attitude by reference to instruments, the standard recovery is to
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reduce power, level the wings, and pull to level flight.
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✓ increase power as appropriate, lower the nose to reduce angle of attack and prevent a stall, level the wings, then return to level flight.correct
Nose-high recovery sequence: increase power as appropriate, lower the nose to reduce angle of attack and prevent a stall, level the wings, then return to level flight. Reducing power is the nose-low/overspeed response, not nose-high.
level the wings first and hold pitch until airspeed increases.
Leveling wings before lowering nose risks stall.
deploy flaps before making pitch or power corrections.
Configuration changes are not part of unusual attitude recovery.
Why
Nose-high recovery sequence: increase power as appropriate, lower the nose to reduce angle of attack and prevent a stall, level the wings, then return to level flight. Reducing power is the nose-low/overspeed response, not nose-high.
FAA source: FAA-H-8083-3C, Airplane Flying Handbook, Ch. 5, upset recovery template; AFM/POHbrowse the reference library →
Original study question written for this course — representative of FAA knowledge-test topics, not an actual current FAA exam question.