Aviation Expedition
*The event has already taken place on this date: Fri, 06/15/2018
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Your budding aviator will be given the opportunity to understand simple piloting concepts and skills through the use of experiments and real-world aviation tools and environments. Students will walk away from this program with a keen sense of team work and basic aviator knowledge that they can carry forward to their next level of aviation training.
Students will gain a basic understanding through hands-on activities/experiments with:
* Four Forces of Flight (Visit an aircraft maintenance hangar)
* Aircraft Control Surfaces (Interact with an aircraft parked on the ramp)
* Engineering Concepts (Design an aircraft)
* Team Building Concepts
* Compasses and Headings
* Airport Signs/Runways and Operations (Tour the Centennial Airport control tower)
* Weather
* Humanitarian Mission Planning
* Flight Planning and Sectional Charts
* Wing Design
* ‘Flying’ in a Full Motion or Static Flight Simulator
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