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Flight Academy |
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Boy
Scouts of America |
Boy
Scout Aviation Merit Badge
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When: |
The
first Sat of every month |
Time: |
9:00 – 4:00
(lunch included) |
Where: |
California
Flight Academy
2045 N Marshall @ Gillespie Field |
ONLY $79.95 PER SCOUT
What do I get?
The California Flight Academy Boy Scout Aviation Merit Badge Program is intended
to fulfill all the requirements for the Boy Scout Aviation Merit Badge as
stated in BSA Advancement ID # 25 from Boy Scout Requirements, # 33215E, revised
2002.
The program will include approximately 3 hours of classroom instruction emphasizing
hands on activities as outlined in the course synopsis. As part of the program,
each participant will receive approximately ½ hour at the controls (in
the pilot’s seat) of a Cessna 172 4 – place aircraft while under
the close supervision of a senior flight instructor. In addition, each participant
will receive approximately one hour riding in the back seat of the same aircraft
while observing another Boy Scout at the controls.
Participants will also receive a San Diego Area aeronautical chart, a CD ROM
discussing the basic principles of flight and a certificate of completion from
California Flight Academy.
BSA Aviation Merit Badge Course Synopsis:
All items from Section 1 of the Boy Scout Merit Badge Requirements for Aviation
are included: (All items are required)
- Define "aircraft". Describe some kinds
and uses of aircraft today. Explain the operation of piston,
turboprop, and jet engines.
- Point out on a model airplane the forces that act on an airplane
in flight.
- Explain how an airfoil generates lift, how the
primary control surfaces (ailerons, elevators, and rudder) affect
the airplane’s attitude,
and how a propeller produces thrust.
- Demonstrate how the control surfaces of an airplane are used for
takeoff, straight climb, level turn, climbing turn, descending turn,
straight descent,
and landing.
- Explain the following: the recreational pilot and the private pilot
certificates; the instrument rating.
- Find out what job opportunities there are in aviation. Describe
the qualifications and working conditions of one job in which you
are interested. Tell what it
offers for reaching your goal in life.
Selected items from section 2 of the Aviation Merit Badge requirements:
- Take a flight in an aircraft. Record the date, place, type
of aircraft, and duration of flight, and report on your
impressions of the flight.
- Visit
an airport. After the visit, report on how the facilities are
used, how runways are numbered, and how runways are determined to be "active."
- Explain the purposes and functions of the various instruments found in
a typical single-engine aircraft: attitude indicator, heading indicator,
altimeter,
airspeed indicator, turn and bank indicator, vertical speed indicator,
compass, navigation (GPS and VOR) and communication radios, tachometer,
oil pressure
gauge, and oil temperature gauge.
Selected items from section 3 of the Aviation Merit Badge requirements:
- Under supervision, perform a preflight inspection of a light airplane.
- Obtain and learn how to read an aeronautical chart. Measure a true course
on the chart. Correct it for magnetic variation, compass deviation, and
wind drift. Arrive at a compass heading.
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