Student Pilot Briefing

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1 Student Pilot Briefing February 2008 Volume 1 Issue 2 Greetings Good Students By Hank Bartlett I applaud you for going beyond the usual and joining our effort to increase the numbers of young people interested in Aviation and Space. You are starting a truly unique adventure. Only 1/3d of 1% of the American population are pilots. I am truly proud of you for joining this special group. I hope we can help you fulfill your dreams I have just reviewed our latest test. The scores went from a high of 94% to some in the 40% s. The class average was 57%. If you didn t get the 94 don t be discouraged. There is hope! Not to worry. You can do this. I have taught this same material for over 20 years to High School, Air Force Academy, and adult students. Every one struggles with the FAA test questions in the beginning. I set up the course so that you would read the material first then hear about it in class. The class work is to clarify and reinforce the reading. The most important part is your personal study. This is what I have found works best for most people. After you have read the text, and been to class for a topic and are ready to prepare for the test. 1.Take the FAA Knowledge test guide and read the introduction for the part of the chapter we are working on. 2. Next take a piece of paper and write the question numbers in a column on it. Cover up the answers with the paper. Start with the first question and write your answer. Move the paper down and check your answer. Read the explanation. If you got it right, move on to the next. If not and the explanation does not make sense go back to the text. 3. If you still don t get it, make a note to go over it with your mentor. Continue this process until you finish. Then go back over the ones you missed. Next go back over the whole thing. Continue till you are happy with your progress. I guarantee this will improve your scores a lot. Our goal is 85 to95%. You will also need to go back and do the previous chapters. This knowledge disappears quickly with out constant review. Frequent short study sessions are a lot better than one long one just before the test. At all times remember this is the first step towards your long term goals. It is sort of like an initiation rite. The experience is a little grim at times but you will really be proud of yourself when you are successful. I was really pleased with myself when I passed my test years ago and you will be too.as you get more flying experience this will make more sense because you really do use these concepts in piloting your plane through the sky. You will love the application phase and it won t be multiple choice.

2 Page 2 Student Pilot Briefing Adventures in Helicopters By Jared Bateman I ve been flying in helicopters with my dad since I was two. My dad always let me put my hands on the stick to feel what he was doing but for a long time I never felt anything happen. One day when I was five years old my dad let me take the controls. I wanted to know what the cyclic (stick) did so I gave it a stir. That was a big mistake! The moment I did that our SA-341 Gazelle immediately went in a downward spiral. My dad recovered it before any damage was done. When he asked me why I did that I told him I wanted to know what the controls would do. It was a while before I was allowed to take the controls again but this time I was more prepared. I was still surprised at how sensitive the helicopter was to even the slightest movements. I flew my first airplane a few years ago at a Young Eagles rally and I was surprised by the difference between rotor-wing and fixed-wing aircraft. In helicopters you have to use the pedals when changing the collective (similar to the throttle in an airplane) whereas in fixed wing you often use the pedals whenever you make a turn. But the thing that got me most was the difference in sensitivity. Now that I have some experience in helicopter flying I can see how maneuvering it is more like using the Force than moving the cyclic. Even with the incredible amount of sensitivity, it is still lots of fun to fly. A Ride Anyone? After the mentoring class on January 19th, Tiersa Pialet, Bryan and Brent Stone, and Jamie Tave each got a ride in Chris Woodard s Cozy. Quite a treat!

3 Student Pilot Briefing Page 3 All of our mentors and instructors really want to help!. My Dream Is Now A Reality By Jeremy Bushnell I am currently a participant in the AEFCO s monthly ground school. I have always dreamed of becoming a pilot since I can remember, and these classes are my dreams come true. I have been around aviation my whole life, and I believe it would be the best job in the world. My dad is a private pilot and bought a Cessna 172 when we lived in Austin, Texas. When I turned two, we moved to Colorado, bought part of a Cessna 182, and just recently, a Cessna 210. Now, having a dad with an airplane, what better thing to do than learn to fly it! I was looking around for a good flight school when I was accepted into the AEFCO summer aviation class. Of course, I took it, and it was by far the best thing I have ever done to jump-start my aviation career. I always look forward to the monthly meetings so I can talk to people who have as much of an interest in flying as I do. I never knew how many people really wanted people like us to succeed. All of our mentors and instructors really want to help! They want us to follow in their footsteps and to hopefully become pilots some day. The resources that the AEFCO have given us are incredible and is leading me straight into a new part of my life that would ve been extremely hard to obtain in other ways. There is absolutely no way I can express my gratitude toward the AEFCO and all of its members and participants. Their dedication and hard work really pays off, and I hope that they keep following their path to success. Airspace Help Bill Clothier, AEFCO Mentor The most effective way I have found to study the various types of airspace is to take one airspace type at a time and determine the following attributes: 1. Limits floor/ceiling/width and location 2. Usage what type of hazard to expect in each 3. Pilot Requirements license and ratings (Pvt. Instrument, Student...) 4. Entry Requirements communications 5. Equipment Requirements 2 way radio/ Transponder/Mode C 6. Visibility and Cloud Clearance Day/Night/ SVFR 7. Controlling Agency Tower/FSS/ATC 8. Chart Markings How to identify the airspace 9. Details Where to find information about each allocated airspace area Keep in mind these are layers each layer may be a different type of airspace with different attributes. Give some thought as to why the rules are what they are. For instance, if Class B airspace is so busy and important, why is the cloud clearance only Clear of Clouds? In our next class we will try to answer a lot of questions like this and ask many more, do come ready to think. Don t forget the extra credit question: Tell me what you can find on Alert Area A-260.

4 Page 4 FYI June 2008 Summer Academy Student Pilot Briefing It is not too early to start thinking about your essay for application to this June s event. June 18 th to the 27 th with orientation on the evening of June 17 th at 6PM. For application to this event, there is a required 1 page essay, but you may write 2 pages if you wish, to explain to the AEFCO Board of Directors and your teachers why you want to attend, what your desires in an aerospace/aviation career would be, and your accomplishments toward this goal. The Board of Directors will interview students individually on June the 7 th for this summers class. You are encouraged to come to an interview, but this is not required for application to the June 8 day academy. You will need to get a time for the interview. Let me explain to the new students and remind those that were at last summers camp about the flying activities each morning. Last year we were fortunate to have four training aircraft and four certified fight instructors. We asked each CFI to volunteer at least 2 flights each day. With preflight time on the ramp and the flight lesson it consumes the morning for two lessons for each instructor. If we do the math, that means there will be 8 full time flying slots for 5 days. Those figures may vary by 1 or 2 students, but those are the numbers we are planning for this June. While we will also have the extended Young Eagle flights of about 45 minutes per ride. Although this flight time is not logged, it is educational flying time. All of our pilots are very experienced, many with 30 years or more of flying and thousands of hours in the cockpit. There are now 22 of you in class. Some of you may be left out of the main event, but we will again, hold a mini camp in July for 3 days. We are still finalizing the aircraft we will have and the instructors that will attend, so we do not have the final plans yet. We will keep you informed as this develops. Again, we would like to offer a scholarship this year for flight lessons. It will be contingent on the funds being available. The requirement for application for the scholarship is to have passed the private pilot written test by the FAA. Richard Martin, President AEFCO

5 Page Student 4 Pilot Briefing Student Pilot Briefing Page 5 AEFCO Mentors February 23 Meet with Mentors 10:00 AM EAA Cookout Follows March 1 Private Pilot Prep Course 10:00 AM Bart Bartholomew (719) bbart91@aol.com Hank Bartlett (719) bartlrm@comcast.net Bill Clothier (719) whczip@comcast.net Ed Hopkins (719) Joe Kuberka (719) flybga@hughes.net John Lingwall (719) Hiperbipe@FalconBroadband.net Richard Martin (719) wemartin@sprintmail.com Vann Norred (719) vann@pikespeak.net John Read (303) JohnDRead@aol.com Jim Steward (719) Chapter 5 Tell me what you can find on Alert Area A Location for all events is the MLAA Hangar at Piper Lane, Peyton, CO Aviation Education Foundation of Colorado, Inc 8340 Cessna Drive Peyton, CO Phone: (719) wemartin@sprintmail.com Website: