In Unusual Attitude Recovery, what is the second action?

• A. Power Adjust To Maintain Level Flight
• B. Nose On Horizon
• C. Level The Wings
• D. Center The Ball

Answer: (B)

Recovering from an unusual attitude starts with reestablishing a stable, coordinated reference so you can safely bring the helicopter back to level flight. The second action is to put the nose on the horizon. Aligning the aircraft with the horizon immediately reduces the extreme pitch and mixed up attitude, giving you a clear, natural reference for leveling.

Why this fits: the first step is to center the ball, which reestablishes coordinated flight by removing lateral skid/yaw bias. Once you have coordinated control, bringing the nose to the horizon sets the attitude toward level, making the subsequent steps—leveling the wings and trimming power to maintain level flight—straightforward.

So after you center the ball and regain coordination, turning the nose toward the horizon is the next decisive move that moves you from an out-of-reference attitude toward a stable, level state.