Multi-Crew Pilot Upset Training Intervention Attacks COVID-19 Proficiency Impacts Share Article In response to COVID-19’s impact on the activity level of professional pilots operating in the multi-crew environment, APS has announced a powerful solution to reinvigorate manual handling proficiency and flight envelope awareness, and to bolster upset training skills to optimum levels. This frontline intervention is founded on APS’s industry-leading Upset Prevention and Recovery (UPRT) program augmented with a dedicated simulator-based CRM-UPRT, a self-paced online CRM course specific to challenges faced by crews in today’s operating environment, and APS’s all-new Virtual Reality UPRT. "The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) indicates a substantial increase in manual handling-related incidents since March 2020, suggesting improved manual handling proficiency is essential to safe flight operations."