University Of North Dakota Has Been Training Pilots For Decades, Exceeding FAA Recommendations The University of North Dakota’s John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences faculty and staff have for decades been training pilots to recognize and manage spatial disorientation long before the issue gained national attention. “This is something we’ve been teaching for a very long time,” said Tom Zeidlik, aerospace physiologist at UND. “The big deal about this is that now the FAA has recognized that this training has to happen.” The FAA’s Information for Operators (InFO) 26003 encourages operators and training programs to incorporate spatial-disorientation training into standard pilot education.
