Course Overview
The second part of this course is divided into three sections.
- Aviation Careers(5 days)
- Aviation History(5 days)
- Advanced Airmanship(20 days)
- Airframe and Powerplant(20 days)
 | Aviation careers will allow each student to investigate various aviation related careers and develop a educational plan to obtain those career objectives. | ||||||||
| Aviation history will introduce the student to the important milestones of aviation history. This information will be applied to both the advanced airmanship phase of training and the final airframe and powerplant section. | ||||||||
| Advanced Airmanship: this section will put the students back in the simulator for
instruction on the following topics:
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| Airframe and Powerplant: this section will introduce students to aircraft contruction and powerplant maintenance. The final project will allow student to work in teams to build an indoor glider, test it in a wind tunnel, predict its actual flight characteristics, and compete for the Abby Prize -- one minute of sustained flight in our large gym. |
Evaluation
Students will be evaluated on the following criteria.
| Aviation career project = 10% |
| Aviation history project = 10% |
| Aviation history exam = 5% |
| Airmanship assignments = 10% |
| Airmanship simulation = 15% |
| Airmanship exam = 10% |
| Airframe - powerplant project = 15% |
| Airframe /powerplant exam = 10% |
| Class participation, (to include a binder with all handouts sorted by date) = 15% |