18-303 FLYING 101

18-303 FLYING 101  (A Repeat)

Chuck Stump, Fridays 10 am - 12 noon

Cactus Room, 9/28, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2

Almost everyone has, or will fly in a commercial airplane. However, only a few flyers (or future flyers), understand the basic concepts of flight and how airplanes are managed by their operators. What makes an airplane fly and how does it stay in the air even when weighing several tons? What keeps aircraft in flight from running into each other?  How do airplanes get from one place to another? How does air traffic control work? How is safety ensured? This course will examine these and other factors involved in aircraft operation.  This class will include a field trip to the Pima Air & Space Museum.

The instructor has been a general aviation private pilot since 1985 and has accumulated over 850 hours of flight time. He was a volunteer at the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, Kansas, where he taught fundamentals of flight to young people and is currently a volunteer at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson.